News & CLE Events

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...

03/11/2020 - 2020 Jaharis Symposium Moving to Online Format to Avoid Risk of Community Spread of COVID-19

​​​​​​With sincere apologies for the late notice, we have made the difficult decision to move Thursday’s Jaharis Symposium, Genetic Justice: Data, Privacy, and Crime, online. The same terrific speakers will be participating, but we can avoid the risk of contributing to the community spread of COVID-19 by allowing you all to watch the conference from the comfort of your home or...

06/21/2019 - $100,000 gift to enhance and expand health law initiatives

Attorney Gabriel Imperato (JD ’77) and his wife Cynthia, a former judge, have made a $100,000 gift to support the health law program at DePaul’s College of Law. Their generosity will create the Gabriel and Cynthia Imperato Fund for Excellence in Health Law, which will provide unrestricted support with a focus on students, programming and compliance-based initiatives. “This generous gift by...

06/07/2019 - 2019 JHLI Health Care Compliance Conference

The JHLI Health Health Care Compliance Conference Brochure.pdfCare Compliance Conference will bring in compliance experts from around Chicago and the country to come speak on various topics and issues that pertain to health care compliance in the modern legal field. The JHLI mission is to respond to contemporary ethical, legal and moral challenges in the health care field through...

05/14/2019 - 1000 Public Service Hours Driven by Law Grad’s Passion

Amanda (Mandi) Moreland is a self-described joiner. When she was a first-year law student, she said she signed nearly every list at the student organization fair during orientation. However, through her focus and curiosity, third-year law student Moreland has been able to leverage her multitude of experiences into a budding career in public health law. Moreland received both her...

05/29/2018 - College of Law Faculty, Staff and Students Honored at 2018 Commencement

During the 2018 commencement ceremony, the DePaul College of Law proudly presented faculty, staff and students with individual achievement awards for their outstanding work this year. Congratulations go out to all the award recipients and the Class of 2018 on their accomplishments. Professors Allen Moye and Bruce Ottley were presented with Faculty Teaching Awards. Moye made a special teaching...

04/17/2018 - Health Law & IP Law Ranked in U.S. News & World Report

DePaul University College of Law has been ranked in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report for Best School of Law Specialties in both Health Care Law and Intellectual Property Law. For health care law, DePaul is ranked at 16, and IP law is ranked at 28. These high achievements are due to the dedication of the DePaul College of Law faculty and staff in both of these long-standing programs of...