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Mark Hall

Mark Hall

Professor Emeritus of Law

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Mark Hall is one of the nation's leading scholars of healthcare law, public policy, and bioethics. The author or editor of 20 books, he has done foundational research in the areas of healthcare reform, access to care by the uninsured, and insurance regulation. Professor Hall is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the National Academy of Medicine, and he is the lead reporter for the ALI's Restatement of Medical Malpractice law. Professor Hall has published scholarship in the law reviews at Berkeley, Chicago, Duke, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Stanford, and his articles have been reprinted in a dozen casebooks and anthologies. He also founded the University's Graduate Programs for Bioethics and he served on the research faculty at the Medical School.

Education

  • JD, University of Chicago, 1981
  • BA, Middle Tennessee State University, 1977

Publications

Books

  • Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell (West 2025) (with D. Orentlicher).
  • The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation (Aspen 2018) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships (Aspen 2018) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation (Aspen 2018) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships (Aspen 2018) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen 2018) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen 2018) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Bioethics and Public Health Law (Aspen 2018) (with D. Orentlicher, M. Bobinski).
  • Bioethics and Public Health Law (Aspen 2018) (with D. Orentlicher, M. Bobinski).
  • The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications (Routledge Press 2014).
  • The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation (Aspen 2013) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Bioethics and Public Health Law (Aspen 2013) (with D. Orentlicher, M. Bobinski).
  • Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships (Aspen 2013) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen 2013) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Teachers' Manual for Health Care Law and Ethics casebook series (Editions in 1991, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2013) (Aspen 2013).
  • The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World (Rutgers University Press 2012).
  • Bioethics and Public Health Law (Aspen 2008) (with D. Orentlicher, M. Bobinski).
  • Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships (Aspen 2008) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation (Aspen 2008) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen 2007) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Medical Liability and Treatment Relationships (Aspen 2005) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Bioethics and Public Health Law (Aspen 2005) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation (Aspen 2005) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen 2003) (with M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen 1998) (with Wm. Curran, M. Bobinski, D. Orentlicher).
  • Making Medical Spending Decisions (Oxford University Press 1997).
  • Health Care Corporate Law: Managed Care (Aspen 1996).
  • Health Care Corporate Law: Facilities and Transactions (Aspen 1996).
  • The Charitable Tax Exemption (Westview Press 1995).
  • Reforming Private Health Insurance (American Enterprise Institute 1994).
  • Is Community Rating Essential to Managed Competition? (AEI Press 1994).
  • Health Care Corporate Law: Financing and Liability (Aspen 1994).
  • Health Care Corporate Law: Formation and Regulation (Aspen 1993).
  • Health Care Law, Forensic Science, and Public Policy (Little Brown & Co 1991) (with Wm. Curran, D.H. Kaye).

Book Chapters

  • Legal Methods, in Methods in Medical Ethics (J. Sugarman J. & DP Sulmasy eds. 2025).
  • Adaptation of Tort Law to Modern Health Care Delivery in the Restatement of Medical Malpractice, in Health Law as Private Law (I.G. Cohen, et al. 2025).
  • Coding Case Law for Public Health Law Evaluation, in Legal Epidemiology: Theory and Methods (AC Wagenaaar et al. eds. 2023).
  • The American Pathology of Inequitable Access to Medical Care, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law (D. Orentlicher & T. Hervey 2022).
  • Solving Surprise Medical Bills, in Transparency in Health and Health Care in the U.S. (Holly Lynch, et al. 2019).
  • Health Insurance Reform and the Latinx Population, in New and Emerging Issues in Latinx Health 239 (Airin Martinez & Scott Rhodes 2019).
  • Fiduciary Principles in Health Care, in The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (E. Criddle, et al. 2019).
  • Employment-Based Health Coverage, in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Healthcare Law (Glenn Cohen, Allison K. Hoffman, and William M. Sage, eds. 2016).
  • Coding Case Law for Public Health Law Evaluation, in Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods (A. Wagenaar and S. Burris 2013).
  • Legal Methods, in Methods in Medical Ethics (J. Sugarman and D. Sulmasy, eds. 2010).
  • Quality Regulation in the Information Age: Challenges for Medical Professionalism, in Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age (2010).
  • Property, Privacy, and the Pursuit of Integrated Electronic Medical Records, in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions (E. Elhauge, ed. 2010).
  • Insurance and Genetic Discrimination, in Genetic Testing: Care, Consent, and Liability 156-162 (Neil F. Sharpe and Ronald F. Carter, eds. 2005).
  • The Management of Conflict over Health Insurance Coverage, in The Privatization of Health Care Reform (M. Gregg Bloche, ed. 2003).
  • The Ethics and Empirics of Trust, in The Ethics of Managed Care: Professional Integrity and Patient Rights (Wm. Bondeson and James Jones, eds. 2002).
  • Referral Practices under Capitation, in Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook (K. Gervais, et al. eds. 1999).
  • Physician Rationing and Agency Cost Theory, in Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice and Research 228-50 (R. Spece, et al. eds. 1996).
  • Liberal and Communitarian Ethics of Insurance Selection, in Health Care Crisis: The Search for Answers? 94-111 (R. Misbin, et al. eds. 1995).
  • Liberal and Communitarian Ethics of Insurance Selection, in Health Care Crisis: The Search for Answers? 94-111 (R. Misbin, et. al., eds. 1995).
  • Introduction, in 79 Ways to Calm a Crying Baby by Diana S. Greene (1988).

Articles

Other

Presentations

  • The History of Corporate Control of Medical Practice
    American Society of Emergency Medicine, February 1, 2024
  • A Survey of the Health Policy Landscape
    February 1, 2024
  • The Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
    Michigan Medical Society, January 1, 2024
  • Marketplace Stability Under the ACA: A 10-year Perspective
    Rockefeller Institute, October 1, 2023
  • The First Restatement of Medical Malpractice: What's Old, What's New
    University of California Law, March 1, 2023
  • State Pre-emption of Municipal Sanctuary Policies for Undocumented Immigrants
    University of California, San Francisco, Department of Public Health Science, March 1, 2023
  • Regulating Private Equity in Health Care
    University of Miami, December 1, 2022
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Mark Hall
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Expertise
  • Bioethics & Biotechnology Law
  • Health Law
  • Insurance
  • Medical Malpractice