Debra Chopp is the associate dean for experiential education, clinical professor of law, and director of the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic at Michigan Law. Her research, teaching, and legal practice focus primarily on education law, family law/domestic violence, and cross-cultural communication.
Featured Scholarship
"Medical-Legal Partnerships Reinvigorate Systems Lawyering Using an Upstream Approach"
- Health Law
"Preventing Child Maltreatment Through Medical-Legal Partnership"
- Children and the Law
"Strengthening Medical-Legal Partnerships: The Advocacy Letter Project"
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
"Ineffective Homeschooling in a Child with a Learning Disability"
- Children and the Law
Convened and co-led virtual conference for professors in law school clinic Medical-Legal Partnerships throughout the country.
Guest speaker, “Rights of Children with Disabilities when Facing School Discipline,” University of Michigan School of Education.
Presented “Integrating Legal Advocacy into the Healthcare Setting,” Michigan Medicine Department of Pediatrics.
Presented “Experiential Health Law Opportunities through the Medical-Legal Partnership Model,” Health Law Professors Conference, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Cleveland, Ohio.
Facilitated the Medical-Legal Partnership Working Group, Association of American Law Schools Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago.
Testified before the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee on Amending the Michigan Do-Not-Resuscitate Procedure Act, Lansing.
Presented “Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Family Stability,” St. John Providence Children’s Hospital, Detroit.
Presented “Taking Type 1 Diabetes to Schools,” JDRF T1D Summit, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Presented “The Importance of Medical-Legal Partnerships: Helping Children with Life-Limiting Illness with DNR Orders in Schools,” Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care, Phoenix.