Leadership at the intersection of health, ethics, technology, and law.

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 decisions.

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 even a human being. It was a chatbot named Emilie.

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 the Atlantic.