The residential master's degree students have a mix of backgrounds and disciplines. I also teach in our Executive Master's Program, where most of the students are either physicians or health care executives.Google Scholar

These observations are equally applicable to my law and public health course.Google Scholar

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I intend to write a health law text designed for non-law students. On several occasions, I have asked some of my top executive master's students to read the health law chapter of the Gostin-Jacobson book and to assess its suitability for my health law course. Uniformly, they find the casebook more difficult to follow than the approach I use in their course, described in this essay.Google Scholar

In fairness, the notes and comments in the leading health law texts do an excellent job of raising hypotheticals that test a student's understanding of and ability to apply the core legal principles.Google Scholar

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Although Professor Southwick was my predecessor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I never had the pleasure of meeting him. In fact, I was not his choice to succeed him!Google Scholar

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For the law and public health course, I assign Gostin's, Larry Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).Google Scholar

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My syllabus is located at <http://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/faculty/profile.cfm?uniqname=pdj> (last visited March 20, 2011).+(last+visited+March+20,+2011).>Google Scholar

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My epitaph is going to read: “Someone asked him to write one more article on ERISA preemption and he couldn't take it any more!”Google Scholar

I raise lots of questions on what the case means, but use the questions to generate further discussion rather than a rigorous Socratic approach.Google Scholar

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