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Health Law Association

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For more information about the Health Law Association, contact: health.law@mail.smu.edu.

	Check back later for the on-campus 2005-2006 events calendar. All events are on the campus of the SMU/Dedman School of Law and begin at 12:15 p.m. unless otherwise noted.	Click here for Association Events in 2002-2003 Association Events in 2001-2002
	We aim to list non-Health Law Association events that relate to the ethical, legal, or social aspects of medicine and health care. For maps and directions, click on the link for Children's Medical Center or UT-Southwestern Medical School. Ethics Grand Rounds Every second Tuesday, from September through April, UTSW Medical School presents a distinguished lecturer -- often an academic lawyer -- who speaks on a topic in the field of ethics and law and science. Click here for the current year's schedule of topics and speakers.
	Administrative Law - key to understanding health care as a regulated industry - http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/admin.htm Antitrust Law - major area of federal regulation and enforcement activities in health care Disability Law - Americans with Disabilities Act, etc. Employee Benefit Law - ERISA Extern Programs - 10 hours a week in a hospital general counsel's office learning how health law is practiced Food & Drug Law - drugs and devices: how they get from R&D to your hospital or home Insurance Law - includes ERISA and health-insurance issues - http://extranet.law.smu.edu/courses/index.htm#Pryor_Courses Law & Medicine: Bioethics - reproduction, death & dying, human experimentation, organ donation and allocation - http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/bio.htm Law & Medicine: Health Care - the law of health care finance and delivery - http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/heal.htm Law & Medicine: Malpractice - tort liability of health care professionals and entities Law, Literature & Medicine - novels, poems, plays, and short stories about lawyering and doctoring - http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/llm.htm Mental Health Law Policy - the history and current state of mental health law - http://faculty.smu.edu/dshuman/divider.htm Nonprofit Organizations - a major area of federal enforcement activity Psychiatric & Psychological Evidence - admissibility of expert testimony by psychiatrists and psychologists - http://faculty.smu.edu/dshuman/divider.htm
	1. Many organizations sponsor writing competitions for law students. Here are links to the health-law-related ones we know about (note: some of this information may be out of date - check the host organization's web site for current guidance): American Health Lawyers Association - 2003 Topic: Professional Liability - http://www.healthlawyers.org/publicinterest/pi_studentcomp.cfm - First prize: $500 cash plus trip to Annual Meeting in San Antonio - Deadline: May 1, 2003 American Bar Association Health Law Section - 2003 Topic: "Technology's Continued Impact on the Health Care Industry and the Health Lawyer" - http://www.abanet.org/health/lawstudents/writing.html - First prize: $500 cash plus trip to Emerging Issues Conference - Deadline: November 30, 2003 Food & Drug Law Institute - 2003 Topic: Food & drug, medical device, biotech, etc. - http://www.fdli.org/academic/hthomas.html - First prize: $1,500 - Deadline: May 16, 2003 Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C. - 2003 Topic: Open http://www.ebglaw.com/article_733.html - First prize: $4,000 - Deadline: January 18, 2003 American College of Legal Medicine - Two separate competitions: Bioethics (Deadline: January 20, 2003), Legal Medicine (Deadline: January 27, 2003) - http://www.aclm.org/swc/swc.asp Treatment Advocacy Center - 2003 Topic: unknown - not clear whether there is a 2003 writing competition, but check out this web address: http://www.psychlaws.org/LegalResources/WritingCompetition.htm International Association of Defense Counsel - 2003 Topic: tort law, insurance law, civil procedure, evidence or other areas of the law of practical concern to lawyers engaged in the defense or management of the defense of civil litigation - Deadline: April 16, 2003 - contest information here: http://www.iadclaw.org/ScriptContent/comm.cfm?comm=*lwc 2. In addition, many writing competitions are on topics that, with a little imagination, could easily lend themselves to a health-law focus, such as privacy, antitrust, tax, feminist jurisprudence, legal ethics, computer law, etc. A good collection of all known law-student writing competitions is on the web site of the University of Memphis School of Law. The information there can be a little dated, but if you need more current information on a listed competition, you can contact the sponsor directly or, often, through their web site.
	faculty.smu.edu/tmayo : Browse health law information, bioethics-related web-links http://supreme.findlaw.com: Click on “Supreme Court” then “case index” and check out the health law section (assuming SCOTUS has any health-law cases on its current docket) American Health Lawyers Association: AHLA has incredibly cheap student memberships and a wealth of information about every aspect of health law, much of it free to the public or free to members.
	The objectives of the Southern Methodist University Health Law Association are to raise awareness of health related legal issues; to generate student interest in health law; to facilitate an ongoing dialogue regarding health law and related legal issues; and to embrace the educational opportunities of law students interested in health law. To review our bylaws, click here. This page is the sole responsibility of the Health Law Association, not SMU or the Dedman School of Law. For information about this site, contact tmayo@mail.smu.edu