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School Notes: Yale Law School
November/December 2015

Heather K. Gerken | http://law.yale.edu

Health care law is topic of conference

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, a new center focusing on the governance, business, and practice of health care in the United States, launches in November with a conference, The New Health Care Industry: Integration, Consolidation, Competition in the Wake of the Affordable Care Act. The conference, cosponsored by the Yale School of Management, will bring together voices from the health-care industry, government, and academia to evaluate the legal, economic, and medical effects of consolidation, and to examine the question of how the Affordable Care Act has contributed to these developments, with its encouragement of health-care integration and “accountable care.” Kathleen Sebelius, former secretary of Health and Human Services, will give a keynote. The Solomon Center will devote new academic and legal-professional discipline to the rapidly evolving environment of health care and its centrality in the nation’s economy and government.

Islamic law is focus of new YLS center

The new Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School will bring prominent scholars of Islam to campus for public lectures, seminar discussions, visiting fellowships, and visiting professorships, attracting students from around the university to its lectures and other opportunities for collaboration. Under the direction of Law School Sterling Professors Owen Fiss and Anthony T. Kronman ’75JD, the center will consist of a lecture series on Islamic law and civilization; research fellowships for fellows in residence at the Law School; visiting professorships; student fellowships for advanced studies in projects related to Islamic law and civilization; and a potential future professorship in Islamic law. The center has been funded by a $10 million gift from Abdallah S. Kamel, chief executive of the Dallah Albaraka Group, LLC, a banking and real estate enterprise based in Saudi Arabia.

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