Law & Health Care Program

Certificate in Health Law Requirements

Students interested in obtaining the Health Law Certificate should meet with Virginia Rowthorn, Managing Director of the Law & Health Care Program, early on in their law school career to discuss the requirements for the Health Law Certificate and how to plan their course schedules to meet the Certificate requirements. On or before April 1 of your final semester (November 1 for December graduates), you must complete the Certificate in Health Law Application form available online and submit the form to Virginia Rowthorn.

To obtain the Health Law Certificate, students must complete a minimum of 17 credits in Health Law in three areas (Courses/Seminars, Experiential Learning, and Writing Requirement) pursuant to the following requirements:

Courses and Seminars (at least 6 credits)
1. Required Course: Health Care Law & Policy
2. A list of courses that apply to toward the Health Law Certificate - in the Spring semester of each academic year, a list of courses that qualify for the Health Law Certificate will be posted on the Curriculum link of the Health Law webpage.
3. One credit can be applied to the Certificate for students who take the Employee Benefits Seminar (ERISA)
4. Other Courses and Credits that Apply to the Health Law Certificate (these cannot be used to meet the 6 credit coursework requirement)
  1. Administrative law (3 cr)
  2. Health Law Workshop (2 cr)
  3. Journal of Health Care Law & Policy (maximum of 6 credits)
Experiential Learning Component (at least 3 but no more than 6 credits of Health Law Externship AND/OR Health Law Clinic credits)
1. Externships (all students doing a Health Law Externship must complete the Health Law Workshop for an additional 2 credits) AND/OR
2. Health Law Clinics
  - Drug Policy Clinic
  - Public Health Clinic
  - Civil Rights of Individuals with Disabilities Clinic
  - Health Care Delivery and Child Welfare Clinic (HIV/AIDS clinic)
Research and Writing Requirement
1. This component can be satisfied through a
  - Seminar Paper
  - Independent Written Work on a health-related topic
  - Health Law Moot Court or other approved competition paper
  - Journal of Health Care Law & Policy (published papers only)
  - Health Law Writing Competition
2. If it is a graded paper, you must receive a grade of B or higher for the paper to count toward the health law certificate.
3. A seminar paper written in a health law seminar will apply even if the paper is not a cert paper.

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