Certificate Requirements
Health Law
Consistently ranked among the top health law programs in the country, DePaul's Health Law Institute offers a Certificate in Health Law that provides law students, health care professionals and non-degree seeking attorneys with a solid health law education. The College of Law's comprehensive and up-to-date curriculum offers students access to theoretical as well as practical courses identified by prominent health law practitioners as "must-haves" in health law education. Taught by leading and experienced faculty, these courses along with practical experience opportunities offered at DePaul contribute to an outstanding health law education.
Required Courses
- Law 706: Health Policy and the Law
- Law 727: Health Care Law Regulation
Liberal Arts Sciences Certificate Electives
- MPS 520: Human Resource Administration
- MPS 524: Marketing for Service Organizations
- MPS 537: Health Care Delivery Systems
- MPS 547: Medical Sociology
Elective Courses
- Law 200: Non-Profit Organizations
- Law 207: Mass Tort Litigation
- Law 250: Seminar: Children's Health and the Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Domestic Violence
- Law 250: Seminar: Genetics and the Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Legal Aspects of AIDS
- Law 250: Seminar: Legal and Public Policy Aspects of Medical Ethics
- Law 250: Seminar: Public Health Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Women's Health and the Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Medical Ethics and the Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Children and the Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Feminist Jurisprudence: Feminist Medical Ethics
- Law 342: Criminal Drug Policy
- Law 358: Employee Benefits
- Law 402: Antitrust
- Law 403: Forensic Evidence
- Law 416: Health
- Law Legislative Drafting
- Law 417: Labor Law
- Law 421: Law and Medicine
- Law 424: Health Care Reimbursement Programs
- Law 429: Legal Clinic I: Disability Rights
- Law 455: Legal Drafting: Health Law
- Law 514: Legal Clinic II: Disability Rights
- Law 434: Public Health Law
- Law 436: Journal of Health
- Law Editorial Board (2 credits per semester; total of 4 credits & only editors receive credit)
- Law 455: Mediation
- Law 462: Insurance Law
- Law 472: Mental Health Law
- Law 524: Field Placement (Externship) in Health Law
- Law 604: Tax Exempt Organizations (2 credits)
- Law 702: Elder Law
- Law 705: Tax Issues in the Health Care Industry
- Law 711: Legal Issues of AIDS
- Law 716: Disability Law
- Law 718: Managed Care
- Law 720: Antitrust Issues in the Health Care Industry
- Law 722: Employment Law Issues for Health Care Providers
- Law 723: Issues in Health Care Applications
- Law 724: Medical Malpractice
- Law 726: Toxic Torts
- Law 728: Food and Drug Law
- Law 730: Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law
- Law 732: Dispute Resolution in the Health Care Industry
- Law 734: Health Care Contracts
- Law 740: Workshop on Medical Clinical Practice and Medical Ethics
Application for Admission (NON - JD Student)
* Satisfy the senior seminar requirement. Please note that not every seminar is offered every year.
+ Courses marked with a + are considered "Practicum" courses
Students may only apply for one certificate.
