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 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.
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| Students must take the following two required
courses, totaling five (5) credits. |
| Health
Law - Landers |
3 credits |
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| Health
Law - Rodwin - syllabus |
3 credits |
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and |
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| Biomedical
Law and Public Policy |
2 credits |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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 eight (8) 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. |
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| 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.
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Tier
1 - Health Electives
Minimum of three
(3) courses. No maximum. |
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| Advanced Health Law and Policy |
2 credits |
| Assisted Reproductive Technology Law |
2 credits |
| Children and Disability Law |
3 credits |
| Corporate
Issues in Health Care |
2 credits |
| Directed Study in Health Law |
2 credits |
| e-Healthcare,
Privacy and Technology |
2 credits |
| Elder
Law/Disabled Client |
3 credits |
| Elder Law Practice |
3 credits |
| End-Of-Life Care: Legal and Policy Issues |
2 credits |
| Health
Care Fraud and Abuse |
2 credits |
| Health Care/ Legislative Process |
2 credits |
| Health
Law Advocacy (syllabus) |
2 credits |
| Health Law Seminar: Conflicts of Interest in Medicine |
2 credits |
| Health Law Seminar: Health Care Reform syllabus |
2 credits |
| Internships Relating to Health Law |
up to 4 credits |
| Managed
Care |
3 credits |
| Medical
Malpractice |
2 credits |
| Medical Malpractice and Its Reform syllabus |
2 credits |
| Medicare/
Medicaid |
2 credits
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| Medical Research Ethics and Law |
2 credtis |
| Mental
Health Issues in Civil and Criminal Law |
3 credits |
| Public
Health Law |
2 credits |
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Tier
2 - Other Electives
No more than nine (9) credits
from Tier 2 may count as Concentration electives. |
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General Electives |
| Administrative Law
3 credits |
| Antitrust
3 credits |
| Corporations - Franco, Pizzano,
Vacco
4 credits |
| Corporations - Polito
4 credits |
| ERISA and Retirement Plans
2 credits |
| Insurance Law
2 credits |
| Non-Profit Organizations 3 credits |
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Alternative
Dispute Resolution Electives
(only one
(1) of the following courses may count toward the Concentration) |
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| Alternative Dispute Resolution - Professor Golann 3 credits |
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Professor Smith |
| 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
2 credits |
| Negotiation for Lawyers 3
credits |
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| Labor Law
Electives
(only one
(1) of the following courses may count toward the Concentration) |
| Employment Discrimination
Law - Greenbaum
3 credits |
| Employment Discrimination
Law - Yamada
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 |
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Intellectual
Property Electives
(only two
(2) bf the following courses may count toward the Concentration) |
| Biotech Patent Law 2
credits |
| Drafting Patent Claims 3
credits |
| Intellectual Property 2
credits |
| Licensure of Intellectual
Property Rights 2
credits |
| Patent Law
3 credits |
| Patent Litigation Seminar 2
credits |
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| Estates and
Wills Electives
(only one
(1) of the following courses may count toward the Concentration) |
| Advanced Estates, Powers
and Trusts
3 credits |
| Estates (formerly Wills) 2
credits |
| Estates - Gray (formerly
Wills) 2
credits |
| Trusts & Estates |
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