associate professor in the department of psychology. She received her master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, received her J.D. from Yale Law School, and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame.
THE LEGACY OF THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY
MEMPHIS LAW STUDENTS CONTINUE TO EXCEL IN CLINIC AND EXTERNSHIPS
and treatment settings, with a focus on the
variety of new partnerships (in the Mid-South
During the fall semester of 2013, nearly 80
Memphis/Shelby County community and
area) with prominent local hospitals, law firms
third-year law students earned academic
featuring local experts from the University
specializing in healthcare-related issues,
credit and gained valuable hands-on legal
of Memphis and the community.
and a number of governmental agencies.
experience through participation in the
By launching this new Health Law Institute,
University of Memphis School of Law’s
the law school hopes to take advantage of the
Experiential Learning Program. Twenty-six
fact that Memphis is a uniquely positioned
students took one of the three in-house
community for a health law and policy
clinical courses—the Child and Family
initiative, being home to major medical
Litigation Clinic, the Elder Law Clinic, and
systems, an internationally recognized
the Housing Adjudication Clinic—being
children’s hospital, and leading biomedical
offered by the law school during the fall
device manufacturers. It is an economic
semester. In addition, 51 students participated
engine for the region, and Professor Campbell
in the law school’s Fall 2013 Externship
plans to build an institute that uses the law
Program, working under the supervision of
to advance healthcare at the individual,
judges and attorneys throughout Memphis,
population, organizational, and system levels.
while simultaneously enrolling in a weekly
AMY CAMPBELL
HEALTH LAW INSTITUTE LAUNCHED AND LED BY NEW DIRECTOR Amy Campbell was hired in the fall of 2013
Professor Campbell comes to Memphis Law from SUNY Upstate Medical University, where she served as an associate professor of bioethics and humanities, as well as an
classroom seminar designed to introduce the essential habits of the reflective practitioner and assessment of the skills, relationships, issues, and mindsets that prevail in the practice setting.
to lead the new University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Health Law Institute. Professor Campbell worked throughout the fall to develop the programmatic elements of the institute while also planning a national health-law symposium held in April 2014. She has worked to lay
By launching this new Health Law Institute, the law school hopes to take advantage of the fact that Memphis is a uniquely positioned community for a health law and policy initiative, being home to major medical systems, an internationally recognized children’s hospital, and leading biomedical device manufacturers.
the groundwork for future success via a 8