Professor Medha D. Makhlouf to give Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine, and Society

CARLISLE, Pa.— Professor Medha D. Makhlouf will deliver the 2026 Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine, and Society at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on Tuesday, March 27. Makhlouf’s address will be titled “The Past, Present, and Future of Immigrant Access to Health Care in the United States.”

Attendees can register for CLEs and will receive an opportunity to attend a luncheon with Makhlouf before she speaks. Makhlouf directs the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law and supervises students representing community members with unmet civil legal needs that are negatively impacting their health.

Professor Medha D. Makhlouf is the Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health law, immigrants’ rights, and poverty law and policy. Her recent scholarship has been published in the Boston University Law Review, New York University Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Professor Makhlouf is currently writing a book, tentatively titled Health Justice for Migrants, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.