News & CLE Events

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...

12/11/2017 - Professor Joshua Sarnoff covers protecting the consumer patent law right of repair

Introduction: The Need for the PARTS Act. Legislation is needed to protect the patent law consumer repair right for exterior, non-structural, non-safety-related exterior collision repairs for motor vehicles. Automobile exterior collision repair parts (repair parts) are the largest and most important aftermarket for consumer products. For decades, a robust competitive aftermarket for repair parts...

11/20/2017 - The Jaharis Symposium on Health Law and Intellectual Property: Technological and Emergency Responses to Pandemic Diseases

Join DePaul University, located in downtown Chicago, for The Jaharis Symposium on Health Law and Intellectual Property: Technological and Emergency Responses to Pandemic Diseases. Hosted by DePaul University’s Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute and Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®), this one day conference will focus on “best practices”...

03/20/2017 - Health Law Ranking

The DePaul College of Law’s health law program ranks 15th in the nation according to the recent U.S. News & World Report law school specialty rankings. “I am proud of the important work that our faculty, students, alumni, and community partners are doing at the forefront of health law and policy. There is no more important time than the present to be engaged in the difficult issues that face...

03/01/2017 - Remembering Michael Jaharis (JD '58)

The Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law would like to remember Michael Jaharis (JD ’58) on the one year anniversary of his passing in February of 2016. Mr. Jaharis, a graduate of DePaul University College of Law, was the founder of several pharmaceutical companies. He and his wife, Mary, have generously supported the students, faculty, and programs at...

12/02/2016 - JHLI executive director Schostok quoted in 'InBusiness' magazine

Katherine Schostok, executive director of DePaul University College of Law's Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute, was recently quoted by InBusiness magazine. The article, 'Can alternative medicine lower costs?', examines the potential health and financial benefits to, as well as the arguments against, expanding insurance to cover complementary and alternative medicine....