Jay Healey Health Law Teaching Session

Jay Healey Health Law Teaching Session

Persisting with Integrity.  Join us for a collaborative dialogue around questions that matter to our teaching, our world, and our lives. This plenary session uses small-group conversations to share our collective knowledge, build relationships, and shape our futures as individuals and as a community of health law professors. This session is for everyone—new teachers, mid-career, and experienced.

This year’s theme, Persisting with Integrity, reflects the extraordinary legal and social changes we, as health law teachers, are experiencing. A new Presidential Administration seeks to cut funding and change long-standing legal rules and norms for research, public health, and medical care. Through small-group discussions, participants will explore the following questions:

1. How do I think about my professional identity as a teacher of health law at this time and in a longer trajectory?

2. How do we prepare students for the profession they are joining, given the unprecedented attacks and efforts targeting higher education, health care providers, researchers, and legal entities?

3. How do we support each other after this session? Because we’re in different positions and will need various types of support.

Organizers:  Zack Buck, Brietta Clark, Medha Mahklouf, Liz McCuskey, Sidney Watson

Teaching Resources

• Collections of Charity Scott’s writings:

o Collection in JLME 

o A Tribute to Professor Charity: Imagination, Reflection and the Jay Healey Teaching Plenary (JLME Summer 2024 issue of JLME dedicated to Charity Scott’s work). 

• Brietta Clark’s Teaching Health Law column in JLME 

• How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching (forthcoming book) 

• Cafe-to-Go: A Quick Reference Guide for Hosting World Café (revised)

• SLU Law Health Law, Bioethics, and Public Health Law Teaching Resource Bank. Please share your syllabi, problems, assessment tools (including exams), PowerPoints, video and audio presentations, and other teaching materials with the health law teaching community through the SLU Health Law, Bioethics, and Public Health Law Teaching Resource Bank by emailing them to Abigail Allred at resourcebank@slu.edu (you can also use this email to request access). The Teaching Resource Bank is a restricted access web-based file-sharing site maintained by Saint Louis University Center for Health Law Studies in cooperation with ASLME and various AALS sections. It allows those who teach health law and related courses to share teaching materials without sharing them with the whole world or next year’s students. 

Online discussion: 2025 Jay Healey Session Discussion Prompt