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HEALTH AND BIOMEDICAL LAW CONCENTRATION : COURSES
   

Fall 2012 and Fall 2013 Health and Biomedical Law Concentration Courses

 
 

 

Spring 2013 and Spring 2014 Health and Biomedical Law Concentration Courses

 
   

The approved Health and Biomedical Law Concentration courses for the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration are as follows. In order to successfully complete the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration, students must take a minimum of twenty (20) credits in the following approved Health and Biomedical Law Concentration courses, including the two (2) required courses described below. For complete course descriptions, click on the course name.  Please note that not all courses are offered each semester and/or each year and plan accordingly.  Courses may be taken in any order, but students must comply with any prerequisite course rules for particular courses.  Students who wish to write a Thesis must take the Thesis Seminar by their second semester prior to graduation.

 

 A. Core Courses
Students must take the following two required courses, totaling five (5) credits.
Health Law - Professor Landers 3 credits
          or  
Health Law - Professor Rodwin - syllabus 3 credits
         and  
Biomedical Law and Public Policy 2 credits
 
 B. Elective Courses
Health and Biomedical Law Concentration students must take courses totaling fifteen (15) elective credits, in addition to the two (2) required courses totaling five (5) credits. 
 
Beginning in August of 2004, elective credits for the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration will be divided into two Tiers, with Tier 1 containing courses where health or biomedical law is a central theme and Tier 2 containing courses where health or biomedical law is less predominant. 
 
In choosing their electives, concentrators must take at least three (3) courses from Tier 1.  A student's remaining elective courses may be taken from courses listed in either Tier 1 or Tier 2.  No more than nine (9) credits of course work from courses in Tier 2 may count toward the concentration electives.  Limitations on the number of courses permissible from course categories in Tiers 1 and 2 are noted below.
 
Students who are enrolled in their second, third or fourth years of law school as of August 2004 may elect whether to comply with the new, tiered Health and Biomedical Law Concentration elective course requirements, or to follow the previously unstructured elective course requirements.  All students who enter law in August of 2004 and beyond will be subject to the new, tiered elective course requirements.
 

Tier 1 - Health Electives

Minimum of three (3) courses.  No maximum.

 
Assisted Reproductive Technology Law  2 credits
Children and Disability Law 3 credits
Comparative Health Law and Policy 3 credits
Corporate Issues in Health Care  * 2 credits
Directed Study in Health Law 2 credits
Drug Law and Policy 3 credits
Elder Law/Disabled Client 2 credits

End-Of-Life Care: Legal and Policy Issues *

2 credits
Food Law:  Regulatory Compliance in the Food Industry 2 credits
Health and Biomedical Law Thesis 2 credits

Health Care Fraud and Abuse #

2 credits
Health Care Law, Technology and Privacy 2 credits

Health Care and the Legislative Process *

2 credits

Health Law Advocacy(syllabus) #

2 credits
Health Law Clinic 4 credits
Internships Relating to Health Law up to 4 credits
Journal of Health & Biomedical Law 2 credits
Medical Malpractice 2 credits
Medicare and Medicaid Law and Policy

2 credits

Medical Research Ethics and the Law

2 credits
Mental Health Issues in Civil and Criminal Law 3 credits
National Health Law Moot Court Team 2 credits

Public Health Law #

2 credits
Women's Health Law and Policy 2 credits
* Offered during the 2012 -2013 academic year. Will next be offererd during the 2014 - 2015 academic year.  
   
# Not offered during 2012 - 2013 academic year. Will next be offered during the 2013 - 2014 academic year.  
 
Tier 2 - Other Electives

No more than nine (9) credits from Tier 2 may count as Concentration electives.

 

General Electives

 
Administrative Law 3 credits
Antitrust 3 credits
Corporations - Professors Pizzano and Vacco 4 credits
Corporations - Professor Polito 4 credits
ERISA and Retirement Plans 2 credits
Insurance Law 2 credits
 

Alternative Dispute Resolution Electives

(only one (1) of the following courses may count toward the Concentration)

 
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Professor Golann 3 credits

Alternative Dispute Resolution - Professor Smith

3 credits
Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar 2 credits
Arbitration of Domestic and International Disputes 3 credits
Labor and Employment Arbitration 3 credits
Mediation 3 credits
Mediation Advocacy Seminar 3 credits
Mediation Seminar 3 credits
Negotiation for Lawyers 3 credits
Negotiation Seminar 2 credits
 

Labor Law Electives

(only one (1) of the following courses may count toward the Concentration)

 
Employment Discrimination Law - Professor Greenbaum 3 credits
Employment Discrimination Law - Professor Shin 3 credits
Employment Law 3 credits
Employment Law Practice 2 credits
Labor Law 3 credits
Labor and Employment Arbitration 3 credits
Workers' Compensation 2 credits
 

Intellectual Property Electives

(only two (2) bf the following courses may count toward the Concentration)

 
Biotech Patent Law 2 credits
3 credits
Intellectual Property 2 credits
Patent Licensing 2 credits
Patent Law 3 credits

Patent Litigation Seminar

Patent Prosecution I: Drafting

2 credits
 

Estates and Wills Electives

(only one (1) of the following courses may count toward the Concentration)

 
Advanced Estates, Powers and Trusts 3 credits
Estates - Professor Sandoe 2 credits
Estates - Professor Rounds 2 credits
Trusts and Estates 4 credits


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