In an effort to broaden its scope in the area of medicolegal education, the Executive Committee of the American Society of Law & Medicine voted in Cktober 1981 to establish a Health Law Teachers Section for its members who teach health law related courses in any school of law, medicine, public health, health administration, or nursing.

Angela R. Holder, J.D., LL.M., Treasurer of the Society and Counsel for Medicolegal Affairs and Associate Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, recommended that the Society expand its efforts to assist multidisciplinary individuals who share a common interest—education. While the Society was a co-sponsor of a 1980 Health Law Teachers Workshop, chaired by George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., of Boston University School of Medicine, the Society had not given formal, organized attention to the specialized needs of health law teachers.