PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF PARTICIPATES IN THE CLINICAL LAW REVIEW WRITERS’ WORKSHOP AT NYU LAW
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. Professor Makhlouf workshopped a paper titled “Health Care Sanctuaries,” which proposes potential solutions to the problem of noncitizens delaying or avoiding medical treatment based on a fear of immigration consequences. Professor Makhlouf was placed in a group of immigration scholars and appreciated the opportunity to workshop her article with readers whose expertise lies outside of health law. She commented, “The quality of the virtual workshop was just as great as it’s always been. Everyone had read all the papers, the discussion flowed freely, and critiques were—without exception—constructive. I’m grateful for this wonderfully supportive community.”
Professor Medha D. Makhloufis an Assistant 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 or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review Online, and the American Journal of Law and Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s work is available at https://works.bepress.com/medha-makhlouf/.