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In this article, Professor Kathleen Hoke, Director of the Network for Public Health Law, Eastern Region and the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy (LRC) at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law looks back over the last decade of public health law through the lens of a practicing public health lawyer. Hoke started her career as an Assistant Attorney General in Maryland where she worked on a variety of public health initiatives, including tobacco regulation, for Attorney General Joseph Curran. In 2002, she came to Maryland Carey Law to direct the law school's fledgling Center for Tobacco Regulation (now the LRC) and Tobacco Law Clinic. In 2010, the Network for Public Health Law was launched with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Maryland Carey Law was asked to head up the Eastern Region. Professor Hoke took on that role, created the Public Health Law Clinic, and since that time she and her students have provided legal assistance to national, state and local public health professionals, their attorneys, legislators and advocates working to develop sound public policy to improve public health.
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