About SHLA

SHLA members are entitled to a variety of benefits, including:

• Access to membership in the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). SHLA is a student group member of AHLA and receives enhanced benefits for its law student members through this affiliation.
• Participation in the SHLA mentor-mentee program, which pairs law students with practicing attorneys in the health law field. The mentor-mentee program's primary goal is to give current law students greater exposure to the actual practice of law, thereby deepening and enriching their substantive legal education.
• Automatic membership upon graduation in the Graduate Health Law Network, a network of Georgia State Law graduates involved in the health law field.
• Invitations to informal small group discussions with visiting speakers.
• Eligibility to participate in health-law related competitions.

Activities

Members are invited to participate in a variety of activities, ranging from the predominantly professional to the purely social in nature. These activities will include: gatherings with current students and graduates to learn about career or educational opportunities in the health law field; presentations on timely topics of current interest in health care law, policy, and ethics; and other interesting activities relating to health law. Just a few examples of past speaker programs include:

• Annual Bioethics at the Movies Series
• Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Case: Plaintiff's Case and Defendant's Case
• Patient Safety and Medical Errors
• Public Health Initiatives in the Wake of September 11th
• Medical Malpractice: The Physician’s Perspective
• Should Employers Have to Pay for their Employees' Unhealthy Lifestyles?
• Healthcare Advocacy
• Update: The Progress of Healthcare Delivery System Reform
• Health Law Career Panels