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Teaching The Law Of American Health Care, Nicole Huberfeld, Kevin Outterson
Teaching The Law Of American Health Care, Nicole Huberfeld, Kevin Outterson
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In writing our casebook, The Law of American Health Care, we started from scratch, rethinking the topics to include and themes around which to organize them. Like many health law professors, we were schooled in and continued to propound the traditional themes of cost, quality, access, and choice. While those concerns certainly pervade many areas of health care law, our casebook's overarching themes emphasize different issues, namely: federalism, individual rights, fiduciary relationships, the modem administrative state, and market regulation. These new themes, we believe, better capture the range of issues and topics essential forthe new generation of health lawyers. When …
Did Legal Education Fail Health Reform? And How Health Law Can Help, Wendy K. Mariner
Did Legal Education Fail Health Reform? And How Health Law Can Help, Wendy K. Mariner
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Arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act illustrate the pervasiveness of health law issues in society. In court, arguments on both sides also demonstrated insufficient knowledge of the health care system and health insurance to identify and present useful arguments. Too many lawyers remained wedded to theories of constitutional law that have become disconnected from twenty-first century realities. Legal education may have something to answer for in this respect. This essay examines how legal education in health law may offer some valuable responses to ongoing critiques of legal education in general. The more law moves away from strict …