Profs. Rothstein to present at UNLV Health Law Program

Professors Mark and Laura Rothstein will both give presentations at an upcoming program hosted by the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law..

Both lectures are part of the UNLV Health Law Program and will be on Oct. 6.

Mark Rothstein will talk titled "Protecting Health Privacy Is Harder Than Many People Think." 

He is the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and founding director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine as well as professor at the Brandeis School of Law. He has authored nineteen books and more than 250 articles in the areas of bioethics, genetics, health privacy, public health law and employment law.

Laura Rothstein will give the Health Law Program's second annual Health Law Lecture, titled "Changing Standards for Health Care Professional Programs for Individuals with Disabilities: Southeastern Community College Revisited."

During her forty years in legal education, she has written extensively on disability discrimination with an emphasis on disability discrimination in higher education as well as racial and gender diversity within legal education and the legal profession. She uses her scholarship as an "advocate through education" and hopes to influence policy and practice by increasing awareness and understanding of disability rights issues.