Health Law Certificate Program: Requirements and Electives

The Health Law Certificate Program offers the following four tracks:

Administration, Finance and Governance is the new name for the traditional Health Law Certificate course of study in existence since 1996. Its focus is on the “business of health law”—health care financing, credentialing of health care professionals, and government regulation of the health care system. If you have already registered for the Health Law Certificate Program, you are automatically registered in the Administration, Finance and Governance Track.

Bioethics focuses on legal aspects of ethical issues arising between doctors, patients, families, and the state. It is concerned with problems such as physician-patient decision making, end-of-life decision making, organ transplantation, allocation of scarce resources, genetic engineering, and biomedical research.

Global Health and Human Rights encompasses three domains: The impact of health policies and programs on human rights; the impact of human rights abuses on health; and the role of international human rights law in advocating for improvements in human health and human well being.

Public Health focuses on the health of populations, as opposed to the health of individuals, and consequently public health law focuses on legal aspects of public health practice and the consequences of law on the public’s health.

Each track has its own requirements. However, students in all tracks must, in the Fall Semester of their second year of law school, take Health Law and Policy and Current Issues in Health Law I.  Students who wish to enroll in more than one track need the permission of the Program Director.