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Student
THE HEALTH LAW HOUSTON JOURNAL OF HEALTH
ORGANIZATION LAW & POLICY
The Health Law Organization (HLO) The Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy (HJHLP) Activities
provides opportunities for students to provides a scholarly forum to explore interdisciplinary
discuss health law issues and to work issues in health law and policy. It publishes one issue
with faculty on projects that promote of professional and student-authored pieces each year
learning in health law and policy. HLO focusing on an emerging issue in health care. Symposium
also sponsors speakers, initiates charity topics have included telemedicine (2017), climate “The health
fundraisers, provides information and change and public health (2018), health law and policy law program at
networking for students on career challenges posed by human space flight (2019), Medicare UHLC exposes
opportunities in health law, and for all (2020), data privacy (2021), and reproductive students to
organizes social activities for health technologies (2022). Staffed by law students who are both academic
law students. committed to health law, editors may earn academic and practical
credit while gaining valuable research, writing, and aspects of
editing experience. health law,
allowing the
individual to gain an appreciation
for the many specific areas of
law that are encompassed within
MOOT COURT HEALTH LAW FELLOWSHIPS
the general term ‘health law.’ The
program provided a pathway to
HLPI supports two health law moot HLPI offers state legislative fellowships for students to confidence and poise, allowing me to
court competitions in collaboration work with lawmakers in Austin, Texas every biennium. constructively manage the various
with the Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy The fellowships provide students with a unique issues encountered while serving as
Institute: the L. Edward Bryant, Jr. opportunity to participate in health policymaking in-house counsel for a hospital.”
National Health Law Transactional Moot at the state level and to forge strong networks with
Court Competition and the SIU National policy leaders. Fellows research issues related to health
NATHAN ANDERSEN, LL.M. ’08
Health Law Competition. Students hone law, analyze health policies, and contribute to the Associate Vice President of Legal Affairs
their advocacy skills by analyzing and development of legislation. and Public Information Officer
arguing a health law legal issue.
The University of Texas Medical Branch
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