News & CLE Events

10/26/2022 - Student Spotlight: Margot Sheridan

Margot Sheridan ('23) exemplifies DePaul Law's commitment to providing a robust health law curriculum and variety of co-curricular opportunities. Currently the director of programming for the Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute (JHLI) Student Board, Sheridan interned at Sinai Chicago after her 1L year and was a summer associate with Kirkland & Ellis after her 2L year. JHLI...

05/31/2022 - DePaul Law Welcomes Two Jaharis Faculty Fellows this July

​​The DePaul Law Jaharis Faculty Fellows Program provides scholars interested in pursuing careers in legal academia with an avenue for creating and disseminating their scholarship and teaching courses where two dynamic legal fields increasingly intersect—health law and intellectual property/information technology, broadly construed. Jaharis Fellows work with and are mentored by faculty from...

12/29/2021 - A higher bar: It's time for more equality in the legal field

​​​​When Kim Kardas​hian announced to her 272 million Instagram followers that she passed the “baby bar” exam on her fourth try, reactions ranged from celebration to derision, and then to confusion over what, in fact, is a baby bar. Read more​ on The Hill​ >>

06/11/2021 - College of Law Professor and Collaborators Receive $388,244 Grant to Study Health Insurance Purchasing Behavior

​​Professor Wendy Netter Epstein, DePaul University College of Law Professor and Associate Dean; Dr. Christopher Robertson, Professor at Boston University School of Law; and Dr. David Yokum, Director of The Policy Lab at Brown University have jointly been awarded a $388,244 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action program in support of a new, two-year, multi-phase research...

05/12/2021 - Professor of Law Wendy Netter Epstein Named Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Professional Development

​​​​​Jaharis Health Law Institute Director brings her talents to this new role. Wendy Netter Epstein, professor of law and faculty director of the Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute (JHLI), has been named the next Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Professional Development at the College of Law.A member of the DePaul Law faculty since 2013, Professor Epstein is an...

10/28/2020 - Jaharis Health Law Institute Partners with AHLA to share perspectives on “Health Law Disruption: 2030 and Beyond”

​​​“Health Law Disruption: 2030 and Beyond" tells the story of the rapid changes health law is currently undergoing and how industry leaders innovate and adapt to these changes. Only by educating and connecting the health law community can professionals successfully navigate complex regulatory frameworks, helping improve patient outcomes, drive business efficiencies and develop U.S. health...

07/15/2020 - 2020 Jaharis Symposium Now Available for Purchase and CLE credit

​​Recent discoveries in the field of genetics herald immense innovation for medicine and science. However, they also raise significant questions related to individual privacy, societal uses of the information, and applications in the criminal justice system. For example, how should genetic information be controlled to ensure individual privacy and informed consent for all? What are the...

07/06/2020 - 2020 JHLI CCB Health Care Compliance Virtual Conference

​​​​​​​​The 2020 Health Care Compliance Conference will address the key requirements for an effective compliance program and some of the challenges compliance professionals face when conducting education and training, responding to compliance violations, auditing and monitoring, implementing HIPAA protections, and communicating and reporting.  The conference will specifically address...

05/18/2020 - Jaharis Health Law Institute Produces Video Series on the COVID-19 Impact with American Health Law Association (AHLA)

​​​​​​​​The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the lives of nearly all people and businesses, with the health care industry at the epicenter of the crisis.  As the health care community faces unprecedented challenges in delivering care, DePaul College of Law in partnership with the American Health Law Association (AHLA) and dbase media have produced a series of...

04/28/2020 - Alice Setrini Joins the Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute as Executive Director on May 4, 2020

​​​​Alice Setrini has been named executive director of the Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law. Setrini comes to DePaul from a career in legal services, most recently as a manager of Legal Aid Chicago's Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLP) Project beginning in 2015. Setrini has worked closely with a wide range of medical partners while...