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Health Care Reform Update: Where are We and Where are We Going?
Please join Professor Lucinda Jesson on Thursday, February 25th from 11:30-12:30 in the faculty study as she breaks down the current status of health care reform efforts. Bring a lunch and your questions on what the current proposals include and how reform would impact Minnesota.Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy Explores Health and Race
The 2010 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy's annual symposium, together with the Hamline Critical Legal Studies Group will use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore the role race places in health disparities in the United States. The symposium will be held on Friday, March 12, 2010 and will gather national and local scholars, law practitioners, policymakers, and government officials to address racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes, determinants, and access to health care. For additional information, visit http://law.hamline.edu/JPLP/index.html; call 651-523-2122 or 651-523-2371; or email Deb Lange at dlange@hamline.eduProfessor Jesson Discusses What's Hot and What's Not in Health Care in Minnesota Lawyer
Friday, July 31, 2009
What's hot & what's not: Health
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by Michelle
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Every time you turn on the news these days, you hear talk about health care reform. Questions around how to ensure coverage for everyone, who’s going to pay for coverage and how it will be administered and delivered are being bandied about by both political parties, often resulting in divisive...
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Katrina Angela Pagonis to become assistant professor of law at Hamline's Health Law Institute
Hamline's Health Law Institute is gaining a new faculty member. Katrina Angela Pagonis will become an assistant professor of law at Hamline on July 1.
Cruz Reynoso Inspires Jurist Fiesta Guests
Distinguished Jurist and University of California Davis School of Law Professor Emeritus Cruz Reynoso (shown here with Dean Lewis, left, and Professor Tom Romero, right) provided an inspiring presentation on the Struggle for Social Justice (audio here) as the Juris Fiesta keynote speaker on March 14, 2009.
Professor Cruz Reynoso was the first Latino person to serve on the California Supreme Court. He served as an Associate Justice from 1982 to 1987 and is credited with helping to extend additional protections for the environment, individual liberties and civil rights. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, from President Clinton in 2000, the same year he received the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Award in Education. He served as the Vice Chair on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1994-2004 and was a professor at the UCLA School of Law from 1991-2001. Professor Reynoso also is the inaugural holder of the UC Davis School of Law's Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality, which recognizes outstanding scholarship and teaching, along with a commitment to preserving and expanding the understanding of "the virtues necessary of a great republic."
