ACR Bylaws Committee Chair Judges National Health Law Moot Court Competition
ACR Council Steering Committee member, Michael M. Raskin, M.D., JD, FCLM, chair of ACR Bylaws Committee and president of the American College of Legal Medicine, judged the final round of competition at the 17th annual National Health Law Moot Court Competition held Nov. 7- 8, 2008, at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law in Carbondale.
From left to right: Guzman, Raskin, McCuskey, Pope
The competition, the only one in the nation devoted to health law, is co-sponsored by SIU’s Center for Health Law and Policy, the SIU School of Medicine’s Department of Medical Humanities, the American College of Legal Medicine, and the American College of Legal Medicine Foundation. Thirty-four teams from 25 law schools competed over two days.
The students argued a hypothetical case before the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue was the constitutionality of a state statute that created a process for a small rural hospital to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from a 72-year-old patient against the wishes of the patient and his family.
The final round of the National Health Law Moot Court Competition was judged by a prestigious panel that included Ronald A. Guzman, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Michael Raskin, M.D., MPH, JD, who served as Chief Justice; Michael P. McCuskey, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois; and Thaddeus M. Pope, Associate Professor and member of the Health Law Institute at Widener University School of Law.
