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Dec 12, 2024
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2015-2016 Law Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
Health Law Certificate
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TU College of Law offers a certificate in Health Law to students who satisfactorily complete 18 credits in formally approved Health Law Certificate Program (HLC) courses with an average grade of C+ or better and no grade below C in designated Health Law Certificate courses. Designated HLC courses shall be determined by the Director of the HLC Program after conferring with each student HLC candidate. Any student who wishes to become a candidate for the HLC must register for the HLC program no later than registering for his/her final semester of law school.
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Required Core Courses
An HLC candidate shall complete a minimum of six credit hours consisting of at least three courses. A minimum of one course shall be chosen from each of the two sub-categories below:
Advanced Torts, Biomedical Ethics, Law, & Policy
Health Law Practice Skills
An HLC candidate shall complete a minimum of four credit hours consisting of at least two courses. The courses shall be chosen from any two of the three sub-categories below:
Client Interviewing/Negotiation Skills
Advocacy/Litigation Skills
Legal Drafting/Writing Skills
- LAW - 5632 Estate Planning (2 hours)
- Independent research paper on health law-related subject approved by the director as fulfilling HLC credits.
- Seminar or law journal paper on health law-related subject approved by the director as fulfilling HLC credits; the seminar cannot duplicate requirements for Required Core Courses above.
Administrative, Employment, Business, & Related Courses
An HLC candidate shall complete a minimum of four credit hours consisting of at least two courses. The courses shall be chosen from any two of the three sub-categories below:
Public Health, Safety, and Administration
Business Organizations, Finance, & Taxation
Law & Society
An HLC candidate shall complete a minimum of two credit hours consisting of at least one course chosen from either sub-category below:
The Individual and Society
Historical, Jurisprudential, or Economic Dimensions of the Law
Health Law Practice
An HLC candidate shall complete a minimum of two credit hours chosen from sub-category below and subject to the approval of the Director as fulfilling HLC requirements:
Health Law Externship
(e.g., by arrangement with corporate counsel of nonprofit hospital system or governmental agency & approved in advance by the HLC Director);
Practice Related Credits
- Judicial Internship encompassing significant exposure to health law cases; to receive credit toward the HLC, the internship shall be approved by the Director of the HLC program.
- Complete a practicum/independent research project in a health law related area approved by the Director of the HLC program; this project cannot duplicate the requirements for Category II.C. above.
Advanced Competitions
- Member of National Health Law Appellate Moot Court Team and enrolled for academic credit in “Advanced Competitions,” or
- Member of another national appellate moot court team which involves a problem specifically involving a health law issue and enrolled for academic credit in Advanced Competitions.
Significant law journal/law review work encompassing health law
[cannot duplicate other HLC credits].
Note:
In individual cases: The Director and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs are authorized to modify the requirements of the Program if, in their collective judgment, such a modification is warranted.
*Course offered on infrequent basis.
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