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Teaching Health Law: Health Law Teaching in Medical Schools: Balancing the Different Roles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Marshall B. Kapp
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Thirty years ago when I, an attorney, took a tenure-track faculty position at an innovative, newly opened medical school, I was an oddity — truly, a stranger in a strange land. Today it is not uncommon for American medical schools to employ an attorney as a tenured or tenure-track member of its faculty. Over these last three decades, the educational roles and responsibilities of health law faculty who teach in law schools have become increasingly well defined, with numerous health law courses and textbooks now generally accepted as part of the typical law school curriculum. However, the roles and responsibilities of attorney faculty members who teach in medical schools remain less clearly defined and likely are more individualized to the particular medical schools in which they teach. This essay explores some of the challenges and the opportunities which are given to attorney faculty members who teach in medical schools.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , Winter 2010 , pp. 863 - 870
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2010

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