In September 2025 at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, I presented a paper titled “FDA in 2050: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios,” which was recently published in the Utah Law Review.
Health lawyers are accustomed to thinking about statutes, regulations, and agency action.
I am sad to report the passing of Peter Barton Hutt at 91. Peter was the “dean” of the food and drug law bar, a longtime partner at Covington, arguably FDA’s most important chief counsel…
Most people might assume that the health information on their phone is protected the way their medical records are. It is not.
In the last several years, notable shifts in Supreme Court jurisprudence have eroded the deference that courts have historically granted to health officials.
In an advance directive, a legal document known informally as a living will, individuals specify and record their preferences for future medical care such as decisions on life-sustaining treatments in the event that they become unable to make…
In June the Private Equity Stakeholders Project released a new report documenting more than 500 joint ventures between private equity firms and U.S. nonprofit hospitals.
Over the past two decades, the number of U.S. allopathic medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education has increased from 125 in 2004-05 to 154 in 2024-25.
In May, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The alleged “practitioner,” however, was not a physician or…
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Sofia Palmieri, a health law scholar working at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and regulation on both sides of…
