According to experts at the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine and Law, parents should consider privacy implications when adding their adult children to their health insurance plan. “Under the Affordable Care Act, young adults can stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26,” said Mary Mason, MD, associate director of the university’s Cordell Institute….
Head to the Opinion Section of The Hill for a recent piece by Professor Sheldon Evans. Titled “It’s not just Trump – crime and punishment are inherently political,” the article reflects on how criminal policy has been used as a bipartisan tool. Read here:
Professor Susan Frelich Appleton published “The Forgotten Family Law of Eisenstadt v. Baird” in 2016. The article examines a noted Supreme Court case from 1972, its implications and aftermath. As a result of the article, Professor Appleton was interviewed for a documentary about Bill Baird, one of the named parties in the case. That documentary…
“While I have had great opportunities outside of clinical work, nothing has come close to the hands-on experience I have received in the clinic program,” says student Brayden Basch, JD ‘24. “I have not yet had a job interview where my clinic work has gone unmentioned. Employers are impressed that I have experience regularly communicating…
Professor Kathleen Clark, an expert in legal and government ethics, recently appeared on PBS NewsHour to talk with Amna Nawaz about the Supreme Court’s surprise unanimous decision binding themselves to a new code of ethics. Watch the segment and read the full transcript here.
Intellectual property law expert and Visiting Professor Jyh-An Lee recently spoke at Cornell Law School in conjunction with the Clarke Program in East Asian Law & Culture. Professor Jyh-An Lee discussed the topic “The Non-Market Approach to IP Law and Policy: The Case of China.”
Alumna Heather Navarro, JD ’08, began her journey in environmental law at WashULaw’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, both as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis and while earning her JD. The clinic had a great impact, and cemented her passion for protecting the environment. Navarro now directs Midwest Climate Collaborative, a joint effort with…
Visiting Professor of Law Judge Lech Garlicki recently coauthored a chapter in the first edition of “Constitutionality of Law without a Constitutional Court, A View from Europe”. This book examines the problematic possibility of guaranteeing the constitutionality of law in cases when a constitutional court either has been weakened or does not exist. Judge Garlicki’s chapter…
Three WashULaw alumni were recently recognized as Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Congratulations to Sasha Polonsky Tulgan, JD ’06, Jessica Wilson, JD ’08, and Sophie Wang, JD ’10! Since 2015, the Top Women of Law event has celebrated the achievements of exceptional women lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers, and role models.
“Little Assistance,” a science fiction short story written by Stephen Harrison, AB ’09, JD ’13, was recently published by Slate. In “Little Assistance,” Eugene Steeples, the first judge on the moon, calls up AI reconstructions of past judges to help him solve a difficult case. Harrison’s story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly…
Jill Bodensteiner, JD ’94, Vice President and Director of Athletics at Saint Joseph’s University, recently testified at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the changing landscape of college sports and the urgent need for federal regulatory and legislative action. Bodensteiner and Jack Swarbrick, Notre Dame University’s Vice President and James E. Rohr Director of…
In 2010, clinic client Steven Lazar of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to life in prison after having been convicted of second-degree murder, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, and a weapons offense. Our Post-Conviction Relief Clinical Practicum agreed to take his case, alongside public interest law firm Philips Black. Clinic students Nico DeLong, JD ‘22, and…