Big Data and the Americans with Disabilities Act
The Thirteenth Annual Pike Lecture featuring Professor Sharona Hoffman of Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Monday, March 19, 2018
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue
Barristers Hall
The thirteenth annual Pike Lecture at Boston University School of Law will feature Professor Sharona Hoffman, of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. The Pike Lecture on Health Law is held in honor of BU Law alumnus Neal Pike (‘37), a distinguished lawyer and lifelong advocate for individuals with disabilities.
Professor Hoffman is the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics and the Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center. She teaches Health Law courses, Employment Discrimination, and Civil Procedure and was voted First Year Teacher of the Year in 2011 and 2012. Prior to becoming an academic, Ms. Hoffman was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston, a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, and a judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Douglas W. Hillman (Western District of Michigan).
Professor Hoffman has published over sixty articles and book chapters on health law and civil rights issues. She has developed particular expertise and a national reputation in the area of health information technology. Her work has appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, William & Mary Law Review, and Boston College Law Review, among many other journals. She is the author of two books: Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow (Praeger 2015) and Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press 2016). Professor Hoffman has lectured throughout the United States and internationally and has been widely quoted in the press.