Brietta R. Clark
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1494
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: brietta.clark@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, University of Chicago
JD, University of Southern California, Order of the Coif
While in law school, Brietta Clark was a Legion Lex scholar and a member of the Southern California Law Review. She also served as a legal writing instructor in the USC Lawyering Skills Program and as an intern for the National Health Law Program. Prior to joining Loyola in 2001, Clark worked in the Los Angeles office of Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood as an associate specializing in health care transactions and fraud. She was also a post-graduate research fellow at the University of Southern California Law School. Her scholarly interests include health care access, discrimination in the area of reproductive health care, the role of civil rights law in remedying disparities in health care and medical research on human subjects.
Community Service & Professional Memberships
Commentator for Bioethics Forum, a service of the Hastings Center Report, in partnership with the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (2006).
LACMA-LACBA Joint Committee on Biomedical Ethics, (January 2006 - present)
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Committee on Clinical Investigations
California Hospital Medical Center, Institutional Review Board (2001 - 2006)
LACBA Health Law Section Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (2003 - present)
Law School Admissions Council
- Member of the Services and Programs Committee, October 2003 - 2005
- Member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues Subcommittee, October 2005 - present)
American Civil Liberties Union, Board Member
HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, Board Member
"Hospital Flight from Minority Communities: How Our Existing Civil Rights Framework Fosters Racial Inequality in Healthcare," 9 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 1023 (2006)
"Erickson v. Bartell Drug Co.: A Roadmap for Gender Equality in Reproductive Health Care or an Empty Promise?" 23 University of Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality 299 (2005)
"The Continuing Battle for Gender Equality in Reproductive Health," Loyola Lawyer (Fall 2004)
"When Free Exercise Exemptions Undermine Religious Liberty and the Liberty of Conscience: A Case Study of The Catholic Hospital Conflict," 82 Oregon Law Review 625 (2003)
"Making Sense of Managed Care Quality Information," National Health Law Program, Inc. & Center for Health Care Rights (November 1998) (contributing author)
South Carolina's Ultrasound Bill is Unconstitutional and Unethical, bioethicsforum.com (April 20, 2007)
Bush's Plan is Not the Answer, bioethicsforum. com (Feb. 2007)
The Hidden Costs of a Cruel and Unusual Prison Health Care System, bioethicsforum.com (Sept. 2006).
Business Associations, Health Care Law, Health Care Business Organizations, Medical Malpractice and the Public Regulation of Health Care Quality