Health Law Certificate Program: Administration, Finance, and Governance Track Requirements
The Health Law Certificate Program is intended to give students interested in health law a basic grounding in the field, complemented by clinical experience and more in-depth study of advanced topics and closely related areas of law. Students are expected and encouraged to obtain the same broad background in law expected of all graduates for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Students must elect to enter the Program by the beginning of their second year of law school. Only in rare situations (such as when a student is in the Flex Program or a joint degree program) will exceptions be made.
Core Courses (required)
| Business Organizations | 3 credits | Harper | Fall | Required Fall 2d year |
| Current Issues in Health Law I | 1 credit | Meisel | Fall & Spring | Required Fall & Spring 2d year |
| Current Issues in Health Law II | 1 credit | Meisel | Fall & Spring | Required Fall & Spring 3d year |
| Health Law & Policy | 3 credits | Meisel | Fall | Required Fall 2d year |
Required Electives (register for at least two)
| Biomedical Technology Law | 3 credits | Harper | Spring |
| Business Planning, Entrepreneurship & Technology | 2 credits | Harper | Fall |
| Health Care Antitrust | 1 credit | Newton | Spring |
| Health Care Business Transactions & Finance | 3 credits | Harper | Spring |
| Heath Care Fraud & Abuse | 1 credit | Boyle | Spring |
Clinical Experience (register for at least one)
| Civil Practice Clinic (Elder Law) | 7 credits | Mannix | Fall & Spring |
| Civil Practice Clinic (Health) | 7 credits | Smetanka | Fall & Spring |
| Health Law Practicum – Alternative Dispute Resolution | 4 credits | Smetanka | Spring |
Electives (register for at least three)
| Bioethics & Law | 3 credits | Meisel | Spring |
| Bioethics & Law Clinical Practicum | 3 credits | Meisel | Summer |
| Biomedical Technology Law§ | 3 credits | Harper | Spring |
| Biotechnology Law | 2 credits | Black | Fall |
| Business Planning, Entrepreneurship & Technology§ | 2 credits | Harper | Fall |
| Civil Practice Clinic (Elder Law)* | 7 credits | Mannix | Fall & Spring |
| Civil Practice Clinic (Health)* | 7 credits | Smetanka | Fall & Spring |
| Disability Law | 2 credits | Hornack | Spring |
| Elder Law | 3 credits | Frolik | (Not offered 09-10) |
| Emergency Preparedness Law | 2 credits | Sweeney | Summer (GSPH) |
| Employee Benefits | 3 credits | Frolik | Fall |
| Food and Drug Law | 1credit | Greenberg | Spring |
| Global Health Policy & Development | 3 credits | Rabindran | Spring (GSPIA) |
| Health Care Antitrust**§ | 1 credit | Newton | Spring |
| Health Care Business Transactions & Finance§ | 3 credits | Harper | Spring |
| Health Care & Civil Rights Seminar | 3 credits | Crossley | (Not offered 09-10) |
| Health Care Fraud & Abuse**§ | 1 credit | Boyle | Spring |
| Health Law Moot Court* | 1 credit | Smetanka | Fall |
| Health Law Practicum* | 4 credits | Smetanka | Spring |
| Information Privacy Law Seminar | 3 credits | Pike | (Not offered 09-10) |
| Journal of Envir and Public Health Law*** | 1 credit | Fall & Spring | |
| New Reproductive Practices Seminar | 3 credits | Schiff | (Not offered 09-10) |
| Nonprofit Tax Exempt Organizations | 2 credits | Lieber | Spring |
| Public Health | 3 credits | Morris-Chatta | Spring |
| Reproduction, Sexuality and the Law | 2 credits | Frietsch | Spring |
| Other Graduate Level Courses |
Students may take up to 6 credits of graduate level courses outside the School of Law for credit toward the Health Law Certificate Program with permission of the program director. Courses that are especially relevant are those offered by the Department of Health Services Administration in the Graduate School of Public Health, the Center for Bioethics and Health Law, and the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie-Mellon University. See http://my.pitt.edu, Self-Service, Browse Catalogue for a listing of all Pitt courses. |
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* If used to satisfy Clinical requirement, may not be used to satisfy Elective requirement.
** Counts as one-half course for purposes of satisfying required number of electives.
***Counts as one course if two or more semester’s credit; count as one-half course if one semester’s credit.
§ If used to satisfy the required elective requirement, may not be used to satisfy this requirement.
Writing Requirement
All students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law must satisfy the Faculty Supervised Writing Requirement (including students who are members of a law journal). For a full explanation of this requirement, consult the Student Handbook. Students in the Administration, Finance and Governance Track of the Health Law Certificate Program must satisfy it by writing on health law topic pertaining to administration, finance or governance, using any course, clinic, seminar or practicum which may be used in satisfaction of this requirement. (Courses taught by adjunct professors ordinarily may not be used.) Prior approval of the topic by the HLCP Director is required prior to the paper’s being written, in addition to approval by the course instructor. This requirement may be satisfied by an independent study only with prior permission of the HLCP Director which will be given only in extraordinary cases.
Recordkeeping
The HLC Program Office keeps track of your fulfillment of requirements and periodically notifies you of your status. However, you are ultimately responsible for knowing whether or not you have met all the program requirements in a timely fashion.