This special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is devoted to a unique faculty fellowship program, called The Future of Public Health Law Education, which promoted educational innovations in public health law during the 2014-2015 academic year. This article provides an overview of the fellowship program and a roadmap for understanding the common themes that cut across the ten faculty fellows' diverse curricular projects.

Strategically aligning a conflict management approach that addresses conflict among leadership groups as a means of protecting the quality and safety of patient care is at the heart of LD.02.04.01.

Strategic Vision Group located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on its public health law portfolio. She was a member of the program team in the 2014-2015 faculty fellowship program known as The Future of Public Health Law Education, which was supported by a grant from the Rob

This case study illustrates how collaborative governance through consensus building can work well to achieve law reform, with shared responsibilities among elected officials, private and professional stakeholders, and ordinary citizens. The author discusses the participants involved and the process adopted in Georgia to reform the state's law on advance directives for health care. She identifies some of the best practices that contributed to the success of this law-reform effort, and offers some lessons learned for future work in collaborative governance.

Every hospital has unique needs, and every conflict management process must be tailored to individual circumstances. The recommendations in this two-part article can be adapted and incorporated in other, more comprehensive conflict management processes throughout the hospital. Expanding the conflict competence of leaders to enable them to effectively engage in and model constructive conflict-handling behaviors will further support the strategic goal of providing safe and effective patient care.