Health Law Institute
Health law revolves around an industry, not a casebook. Its laws impact every American every day. The health care challenges for academic, industry leaders, and students confront us in the headlines each morning.
Hamline’s Health Law Institute educates the leaders of today and tomorrow. Our professors know both the courtroom and the boardroom. Through specialized courses and externships, we strive to instill real-life health law experience in our students. Through the Institute’s national speaker series and advanced expertise classes for working professionals, we take education beyond law students to the Upper Midwest’s stellar health care community of lawyers, managers, compliance officers, and policy makers.
This strong program has not gone unrecognized. The Health Law Institute has led to Hamline’s ranking as one of the top 20 health law programs by U. S. News and World Report, 2013 Edition.
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Concerned Minnesotans to Meet with White House About
America’s Judicial Vacancy Crisis
Washington, DC, May 3, 2012 – Three leaders of Minnesota’s legal community will travel to Washington on Monday, May 7, to meet with White House officials about the vacancy crisis in America’s federal courts. Nearly one out of every ten federal judgeships remains vacant, and more than 250 million Americans live in a community with a courtroom vacancy.
The community leaders traveling to Washington are:
- Thao Mee Xiong, Public Policy Specialist, Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women
- Thaddeus Mason Pope, Director, Health Law Institute and Associate Professor of Law, Hamline University School of Law
- See Vang Thao, Attorney
They will join 150 advocates from 27 states in a day of discussions with White House staff. A deal between Senate Republicans and Democrats to allow judicial nominations to proceed in the Senate expires May 7th, and the advocates are urging the Senate to hold final up-or-down votes on all pending nominees.
After the White House meeting, the advocates will visit the offices of key senators, including Senators Klobuchar and Franken, to urge them to work to end the delays that have plagued the Senate confirmation process since the beginning of the Obama presidency.
Despite the delays, the overwhelming majority of Obama’s nominees have garnered tremendous bipartisan support, such as Susan Nelson who was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota by unanimous voice vote in December 2010.
The advocates hope their conversations in Washington will help national leaders understand how harmful the confirmation delays have been to Americans who are seeking justice.
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