Preface

The Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law maintains the Teaching Resource Bank in partnership with the AALS Section on Law and Medicine and ASLME. Professors may obtain password-protected access by contacting  .

Engaging health law blogs include:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/billofhealth/ -- Harvard Law School

http://bioethics.net/blog/ -- Am. J. Bioethics

Health Affairs Blog

For additional discussion of the overall content of health care law and approaches to teaching and understanding it, see Clark Havighurst, American Health Care and the Law: We Need to Talk!, 19(4) Health Aff. 84 (July 2000); Symposium, Toward Relationship-Centered Health Law, 50 Wake Forest L. Rev. 233 (2015); Kathy L. Cerminara, “Therapeutic jurisprudence's future in health law: Bringing the patient back into the picture.” 63 International J. L. Psych.  56 (2019); William M. Sage, Relational Duties, Regulatory Duties, and the Widening Gap Between Individual Health Law and Collective Health Policy, 96 Geo. L. J. 497-522 (2008); Theodore W. Ruger, Health Law’s Coherence Anxiety, 96 Geo. L. J. 625-648 (2008); Wendy Mariner, Toward an Architecture of Health Law, 35 Am. J. L. & Med. 67 (2009); M. Gregg Bloche, the Emergent Logic of Health Law, 82 S. Cal. L. Rev. 389-480 (2009); Andrew Fichter, The Law of Doctoring: A Study of the Codification of Medical Professionalism, 19 Health Matrix 317-385 (2009); Sandra Johnson, Regulating Physician Behavior: Taking Doctors’ “Bad Law” Claims Seriously, 53 St. Louis U. L. J. 973 (2009); Maxwell Mehlman, Can Law Save Medicine?, 36 J. Leg. Med. 121 (2015); Teaching Health Law, J. L. Med. & Ethics (recurring column); Symposium, Teaching Health Law , 61 St. Louis U. L. J. 371 (2017); Symposium, Jurisprudence and the Body, 63 Syracuse L. Rev. 327 (2013) Symposium, 19 Ann. Health L. 1 (2010); Symposium, Patient-Centered Law and Ethics, 45 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1429 (2010); Symposium, Rethinking Health Law, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 341 (2006); Symposium, The Field of Health Law: Its Past and Future, 14 Health Matrix 1 (2004); William J. Curran, Titles in the Medicolegal Field: A Proposal for Reform, 1 Am. J. L. & Med. 1 (1975).

“Therapeutic jurisprudence” is one term used to suggest that how law regards health care finance and delivery might affect people’s health. Kathy L. Cerminara, “Therapeutic jurisprudence's future in health law: Bringing the patient back into the picture.” 63 International J. L. Psych.  56 (2019). The concept of “legal determinants of health” suggests an even broader perspective.  See, e.g., Michael Thomson, “Legal Determinants of Health.” 30 Medical L. Rev. 610 (2022); Lawrence O Gostin, The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development, 393 Lancet 1857 (2019); Symposium, Public Health Ethics (2020). 

Here is a listing of  maintained by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Additional bibliographic materials include:

Treatises and Texts: I. Glenn Cohen, Allison K. Hoffman, & William Sage, eds., Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law (2015); Barry Furrow et al., Health Law (3rd ed. 2015); Melissa B. Alexander & Deborah R. Farringer, Questions & Answers: Health Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2024); Mark A. Hall & David Orentlicher, Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2024); Eleanor Kinney, Administrative Law of Health care in a Nutshell (2017); Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Treatise on Health Care Law; John H. Robinson, Roberta M. Berry & Kevin McDonnell, eds., A Health Law Reader: An Interdisciplinary Approach (1999); World Health Organization, International Digest of Health Legislation.

Leading Medical, Industry, and Health Policy Journals: American Journal of Public Health; Health Affairs (published by Project Hope); Health Law, Policy and Ethics eJournal (SSRN), Public Health Law & Policy eJournal (SSRN); Medical-Legal Studies eJournal (SSRN); Medicare & Medicaid Research Review (DHHS/CMS); Health Economics, Policy and Law (Cambridge Press); Health Services Research; Inquiry (published by Excellus, a Blue Cross plan in Rochester, NY); Journal of the American Medical Association; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; Medical Care; Milbank Quarterly; Modern Healthcare; New England Journal of Medicine.