Yesterday, Professor Bryan Liang, executive director of the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western School of Law, was featured in USA TODAY.
As health care costs continue to rise, and more colleges and universities require students to have health insurance as a requirement for enrollment, students must decide what coverage fits their health needs.
In the USA TODAY article, [...]

This week, the State Bar of California announced California Western School of Law as a recipient of the President’s Pro Bono Service Award. The award is the State Bar’s top recognition for pro bono service and the first award ever given to a law school. 
The President’s Pro Bono Service Award is California Western’s second major [...]

From now through July 30, the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western hosts the Sixth Annual Erizen Sei Bowles Feed a Friend Project, benefitting the Alpha Project. The annual food drive is named in honor of the late Erizen Sei Bowles, a California Western student who would often feed the homeless following meetings with [...]

Professor Susan A. Channick recently presented, “Health Care Reform: What’s ‘In’ and What’s Not,” as part of the UC San Diego and Donald Shapiro Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series.
“The UCSD Biomedical Ethics Seminar is a venue for interested persons in the community to come together to discuss the ethics of medical, scientific and legal current issues,” [...]

On March 26, the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western School of Law and the San Diego Center for Patient Safety at the UC San Diego School of Medicine will present Pharmaceutical Crime: Investigating and Prosecuting Drug Diversion and Counterfeiting, a day-long conference exploring two prevalent types of pharmaceutical crime. 
Pharmaceutical diversion (using prescription [...]

California Western School of Law and the University of California, San Diego will host a Master’s in Health Law information session on the schools’ joint advanced degree program. The session will be held on Tuesday, March 2, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at La Jolla Village Professional Center, 8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite [...]

Last January, then-President-elect Obama set a goal for every American to have an electronic health record by 2014.
On Saturday, February 20, California Western School of Law Dean Steven R. Smith serves on a panel of distinguished scholars and professionals, entitled “Your Medical Records Online: The Promises and Pitfalls.” The panel will explore the technical, ethical, and societal implications [...]

California Western School of Law and the University of California, San Diego will host a Master’s in Health Law information session on the schools’ joint advanced degree program. The session will be held on Thursday, February 11, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at California Western School of Law, 350 Cedar Street, in the third-floor [...]

As the push for health care reform gains momentum in Washington, California Western School of Law continues its commitment to further the understanding of the relationship between health care and the law.Professors Susan A. Channick and Edward Dauer discuss “The Fundamentals of Health Care Reform” this Tuesday, October 27, at 12:15 p.m.
Professor Channick, who joined [...]

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee voted in favor of a health care reform package, a key vote in the push to overhaul the nation’s health care system. While the bill’s passage was a major victory, considering that the committee killed a similar reform effort 15 years ago, this legislation is not out of the [...]