Dickinson Law Faculty Impact

September 2020 — Every fall, more than one hundred clinical law school faculty gather at NYU Law School to attend the Clinical Law Review Writers’ Workshop. This year, the workshop was held virtually, but the format remained the same: Attendees meet in small groups and intensively workshop each members’ draft throughout the day. Full story

September 2020 — Professor Makhlouf’s article, The Ethics of DNA Testing at the Border, was recently published in the American Journal of Law & Medicine, the country’s leading health law journal, and featured in HealthLawProf Blog. The articles provides an overview of how DNA testing has been used in the U.S. immigration context and traces the expansion of DNA surveillance over the past two years. Full story

April 2020 — Professor Medha Makhlouf recently presented a live briefing about the impact of immigration policies on pandemic response at the invitation of Public Health Law Watch, a collaborative initiative that provides expert legal analysis of legislative and regulatory changes that have the potential to impact public health. Full story

April 2020 — This month, Cambridge University Press published Disability, Health, Law and Bioethics, an edited volume based on the 2018 annual conference of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The volume examines how different frameworks for understanding disability can affect medical, legal, and social structures. Professor Makhlouf’s chapter in the volume analyzes the treatment of disability within U.S. immigration law. Full story

March 2020 — Law students in the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic participated in a citizenship forum organized by International Healthcare Professionals Program (IHPP). Through an innovative collaboration, the Clinic is providing representation to IHPP participants in selected immigration and public benefits matters. To kick off the collaboration, students Mark Lingousky and Jasmine Sandhu joined Professor Medha Makhlouf to deliver a workshop titled, “Naturalization 101.” Full story

February 2020 — Medha Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Dickinson Law, and assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine has been named to the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to create a global network of committed leaders working across societies and nations to promote health equity.

February 2020 — Professor Makhlouf recently began her tenure as an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to create a global network of committed leaders working across societies and nations to promote health equity. The program’s two-week initial convening in January brought twenty new fellows and several senior fellows to Washington, D.C., from around the world. Full story

January 2020 — Professor Medha Makhlouf presented her research on the ethics of DNA testing in the U.S. immigration context, at the invitation of the editorial board of the American Journal of Law and Medicine. The Symposium, titled “Emerging Issues in Bioethics,” explored bioethical legal issues in new and developing areas of health care. Full story

August 2019 — Medha D. Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of Dickinson Law's Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, received a joint appointment as assistant professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine—part of central Pennsylvania’s only academic medical center that also includes Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Children’s Hospital, and Penn State Medical Group.