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Brian Wallach (L'07) founded a nonprofit, I AM ALS, after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Brian Wallach (L’07): Combining Forces in the Fight Against ALS

August 8, 2019 Health Law Impacting Change Our Alumni

In November 2017, doctors handed Brian Wallach (L’07) a diagnosis that no one in their thirties expects to hear: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
But Wallach, a corporate partner at Skadden who worked for four years as a federal prosecutor, is not about to let anyone or anything determine the course of his own life. In January 2019, he launched a patient-led nonprofit called I AM ALS.

The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and The Lancet medical journal have teamed up to create a Lancet-O’Neill Institute Commission, chaired by University Professor Lawrence O. Gostin (pictured) and John T. Monahan (C’83, L’87), to explore the vital role of law in responding to major global health law challenges.

O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Celebrates Collaboration with The Lancet, Launch of New Report

May 3, 2019 Health Law International & Comparative Law

The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law has teamed up with The Lancet — the world’s oldest and best known medical journal — to examine how law can be used to advance the right to health in the United States and around the world.

Former White House counsel Don McGahn delivered opening remarks at the January 17 American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) conference on health care, hosted by Georgetown Law CLE.

Georgetown Law Hosts ABI Health Care Conference Featuring Don McGahn

January 29, 2019 Health Law

Regulatory reform in health care “helps economic growth, helps promote innovation, because it frees people to think a little differently,” former White House counsel Donald McGahn said in opening remarks at the January 17 American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) conference on health care, hosted by Georgetown Law Continuing Legal Education.

Georgetown Law Professor David Hyman testified before Congress on June 27 on the topic of health care costs. He also published a new book — "Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care," written with Charles Silver of the University of Texas Law School.

Georgetown Law Professor David Hyman Publishes New Book, Testifies Before Congress on the Costs of Health Care

July 5, 2018 Congress Faculty Health Law

About three-quarters of the way through medical school at the University of Chicago, Professor David Hyman decided he might like to be an attorney in addition to being a doctor. So he started — and finished — law school, also at the University of Chicago, and then went back and completed his medical degree.

Senator Cory Booker (D.-N.J.) discusses health care as a human right at a conference on access to affordable medicines at Georgetown Law on June 28.

Senators Cory Booker, Tina Smith Talk Access to Medicines

July 3, 2018 Congress Health Law

“This is not a time to curl up, to shut up, to give up — it is a time to stand up, to speak up, and to rise up…” Senator Cory Booker (D.-N.J.), said, speaking at Georgetown Law on June 28.

Katie Gottschalk, deputy director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, O'Neill Institute program director Eric Lindblom and Will Tilburg of the Maryland Medical Cannibis Commission lead a discussion on day one of "Addressing the Politicization of U.S. Health Care and Public Health Services" at Georgetown Law on June 21.

O’Neill Institute: Addressing Politicization of Health Care and Public Health Services

June 25, 2018 Health Law

Health with justice. Human rights. Equity. Rule-based international order through organizations like the United Nations. Those values and others are being starkly contradicted by U.S. policy today — in ways that are deeply disturbing and even unconscionable, said University Professor Lawrence O. Gostin, the faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.

Jeanie Namugga (LL.M.’18): Improving Uganda from an Environmental Perspective

June 21, 2018 Environmental Law Health Law Impacting Change

With the discovery of commercially viable amounts of oil in Uganda in 2006, protecting the environment has become an especially hot topic.

Georgetown University School of Medicine Professor Liza Gold, Parkland high school student Dara Jaffe, Law Professor Larry Gostin and Scott Novak (L’20) at the March 26 event.

Parkland, Georgetown Law Student Speak at O’Neill Institute Panel on Gun Violence, Health & 2nd Amendment

March 27, 2018 Constitutional Law & Theory Health Law

“February 14 was supposed to be a day of love and happiness…” Dara Jaffe, a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said at Georgetown Law on March 26 — speaking just days after the March for Our Lives demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and around the world.

Brian Fiske (L’19) leads a discussion with Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank and one of the founders of Partners in Health, at Georgetown Law on March 7.

Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance, O’Neill Institute Welcome World Bank President Jim Kim

March 12, 2018 Health Law

When 2L student Brian Fiske (L’19) was growing up, he was aware that his grandfather, Tom White, was a generous man who wanted to give back to those less fortunate.

Dean William M. Treanor and Adjunct Professor Mary Hartnett welcome Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Hartnett's class during "Week One." Other popular courses featured simulations in which students played innovative roles.

Georgetown Law’s Week One: Simulations Test Students on Real-World Scenarios

January 16, 2018 Congress Constitutional Law & Theory Environmental Law Health Law

“We’re poor, we don’t have much money, and resources are low,” 1L student Ellen Watlington (L’20) reported to Chris Rea of the National Academies of Sciences at Georgetown Law during “Week One.” “What have you seen that works in coastal…

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