Student Competitions: National Health Law Moot Court Competition
Sponsored by the American College of Legal Medicine, the National Health Law Moot Court Competition focuses on timely issues relevant to both law and medicine. Among recent topics: whether a state can involuntarily test individuals for sexually transmitted infections and criminalize consensual sexual conduct which transmits HIV from one person to another; whether a state can deny a proxy's request to refuse artificial nutrient hydration from an incompetent patient; whether an emergency room physician's instructions to a paramedic to take a patient to a different hospital violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act; issues concerning asymptomatic HIV under Titles I and II of ERISA and the ADA.
Loyola's Health Law Team participated on November 9-10 at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. There were 30 teams who competed from 22 different schools. Both of Loyola's teams won their first two rounds but both lost in the third round. Loyola congratulates the teams for their hard work!
2008-2009 Health Law Team
(from left to right) Thomas Weber, Leigh Bonsall, Christy Sicher, Jimmy Stathopoulos
