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Sharona Hoffman is a Professor of Law with a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioethics. She is also the Law School’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center. Professor Hoffman received her B.A. magna cum laude from Wellesley College and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. In addition, she earned an LL.M. in health law from the University of Houston.
Ms. Hoffman joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve in 1999.
Earlier in her career, she clerked for a federal district court
judge, worked as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers,
a large Los Angeles law firm, and served as a Senior Trial Attorney
at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Houston
office.
Professor Hoffman teaches Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Religion, Ethics, and the Law seminar, Health Care and Human Rights seminar, Perspectives in Law and Biomedicine, and Health Matrix Notes Seminar. In 2007 Professor Hoffman spent four months as a guest researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working on liability and immunity issues related to public health emergencies. She has published over twenty-five articles, most of which focus on health law and civil rights law. Her research interests include disability discrimination, biomedical research, health care coverage, race and medicine, the security of electronically-stored health information, and emergency preparedness.
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“Settling the Matter: Does Title I of the ADA Work?” 59 Alabama Law Review __ (forthcoming)
“Securing the HIPAA Security Rule,” 10 Journal of Internet Law 1 (February 2007) (with Andy Podgurski)
“In Sickness, Health, and Cyberspace: Protecting the Security of Electronic Private Health Information,” 48 Boston College Law Review 331 (2007) (with Andy Podgurski)
“’Racially-Tailored’ Medicine Unraveled” 55 American University Law Review 395 (2005)
“The Suitability of IRB Liability,” 67 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 365 (2005) (with Jessica Wilen Berg)
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“Settling the Matter: Does Title I of the ADA Work?” Emory Law School, February 5, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia
“In Sickness, Health, and Cyberspace: Protecting the Security of Electronic Private Health Information,” University of Florida Levin College of Law, February 22, 2007, Gainesville, Florida
“HIPAA Security Rule for Electronically Stored Information,” annual conference of the American College of Legal Medicine, March 2, 2007, Orlando, Florida
“Racially-Tailored Medicine: Troubled History, Current Controversy,” Georgia State University College of Law public talk, March 14, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia
“Law, Liability, and Public Health Emergencies,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Law Symposium, April 9, 2007 Atlanta, Georgia
Panelist, “Clinical Decision Making When Resources Are Scarce: Ethical and Legal Challenges,” sponsored by the University of Virginia and others, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 18, 2007
“Legal Issues for Emergency Responders,” Cities Rediness Initiative Regional Meeting, May 1, 2007, Dallas, Texas (forthcoming)
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