Health Law Certificate
To qualify for Concentration in Health Law, students will be required to complete 17 credits in three areas: classroom courses, experiential learning and research and writing.
Classroom Component (at least 6 credits required):
- Required courses:
- Health Care Law and Policy (3)
- Elective courses:
- Advanced Legal Research: Health Law (1)
- Children, Health, Violence and the Law (3)
- Conflict Resolution in Health Care (3)
- Critical Issues in Health Care (3)
- Elder Law (2)
- Environmental Law Seminar/Health Law Seminar: Tobacco Control and the Law (3)
- Health Law Seminar: Antitrust in Health Care (3)
- Health Law Seminar: eHealthcare—Privacy, Security and Technology (3)
- Health Law Seminar: Food and Drug Law (3)
- Health Law Seminar: Fraud and Abuse (3)
- Health Law Seminar: International Public Health (3)
- Health Law Seminar: Legal Issues in Managed Care (3)
- Health Law Seminar: Long Term Care (3)
- Health Law Seminar: Medicare and Medicaid Fundamentals—Provider Regulation and Reimbursement Format Seminar (3)
- Homeland Security: The Interdisciplinary Study of Crisis and Health Consequence Management Policy in the Era of Counterterrorism—Special Topic (1)
- Insurance Law (2) or Seminar (3)
- Law and Biomedical Sciences Seminar: Genetics (3)
- Law and Biomedical Sciences Seminar: Scientific Research (3)
- Mental Disability and Criminal Law Seminar (3)
- Mental Disability Law Seminar (2)
- Principles of Bioethics Seminar (3)
- Race, Civil Rights and Access to Health Care Seminar (3)
- Scientific Evidence Seminar (3)
Although neither Administrative Law nor Business Associations can be used to satisfy the 6 credit Classroom Component requirement, up to 3 credits may be used to satisfy the total seventeen credit requirement. Up to six credits for participation on the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy may also be used toward the total credit requirement.
Experiential Learning Component (at least 3 credits required):
- Health Law Clinic (5 - 8):
- Civil Rights of Persons with Disabilities Clinic (4/4)
- Civil Rights: Access to Health Care for Vulnerable Populations Clinic (7)
- Drug Policy & Public Health Strategies Clinic (4/4)
- Health Care Delivery & Child Welfare Legal Issues Clinic: The Challenge of the AIDS Epidemic (4/4)
- Interdisciplinary Practice with Grandparent Families Clinic (4/4)
- Tobacco Control Seminar: LTP (6)
- Tobacco Control Clinic (5); or
- Health Law Externship (up to 6 of the maximum 13 credits allowed by the School of Law for externships can be applied toward the required certificate credits);* or
- Health Law Practicum (2 or 3).*
*Students doing a Health Law Externship or Practicum are required to take the 2-credit Health Law Practice Workshop before, after, or during their externship/practicum in order to satisfy the experiential component.
Research and Writing Component: A substantial research paper is required on a topic related to health care law. The requirement may be satisfied by a writing prepared for a seminar, an independent study in health law (i.e., research project, health law moot court, a health law writing competition) or the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy.
