Publications + Presentations
April 20, 2012
Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor of law and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published two academic works: the article “Breaking the Cycle of ‘Unequal Treatment’: Using Health Care Reform to Address Racial Disparities in Health Care” in the University of Connecticut Law Review, and...
April 20, 2012
School of Law assistant professor Andrew Pollis recently participated as a panelist for the second Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Court Institute, sponsored by the Akron Bar Association and the University of Akron School of Law. The panel’s topic of discussion was “Federal Appellate Practice.”
In addit...
April 20, 2012
Kandice Kottke-Marchant, chair of the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at ϳԹ and adjunct professor of biomedical engineering, was a featured panelist at Smart Business's Perspectives '12: Women Who Excel event April 13. Kottke-Marcha...
April 10, 2012
School of Law professor Jacqueline Lipton recently presented a paper on privacy and online social networks at the 14th annual Sughrue Symposium, hosted by the University of Akron Law School. In addition, she presented a paper on trademark and First Amendment issues inherent in ICANN’s new gTLD proce...
April 10, 2012
Linda Ehrlich, associate professor of Japanese, presented the introduction to the screening of The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la Colmena) in the series “Spain’s Film Masters: Beyond Buñuel and Almodovar.” The event, held April 6, was sponsored by Parsons’ School of Art and Design History ...
April 10, 2012
The Arizona State Law Journal recently accepted an article for publication written by Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center. Mehlman’s article is titled “Professional Power and the Standard of Care in Medicine.”
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April 03, 2012
On March 2, Emeritus Professor of Law Robert P. Lawry made a CLE presentation in Columbus titled “Living a Professional Life: Lessons from History, Fiction and the Nitty-Gritty.”
Lawry, who also is the director of the Center for Professional Ethics, gave his talk at the International Council of Sho...
April 03, 2012
Sharona Hoffman, professor of law and bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, presented at the 2012 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Bridging the Gap, which was held in Baltimore, Md., March 13. Her talk was titled “Meaningful Use and Certification of Health In...
April 03, 2012
Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, will give the Pearl Memorial Lecture at the 37th Annual Meetings of the Human Biology Association at Portland, Ore., on April 11. Her lecture will be titled “Fifty years of research on high-altitude adapta...
March 23, 2012
On March 28, Lynn Singer, deputy provost and vice president for academic affairs; Patrick Crago, professor and associate dean, Case School of Engineering; and Jeff
Janata, associate professor of psychiatry, once again will represent ϳԹ in the Reaching Heights Spelling Be...