Health Law Certificate

Health law is a complex and rapidly changing field, encompassing a wide range of laws and policies regulating the health care industry and service delivery, as well as addressing patient care and the public’s health. Competent health lawyers are usually generalists; depending on their specific area of legal practice, they are corporate lawyers, administrative and regulatory lawyers, individual rights lawyers, trial lawyers, etc. First, as generalists, their skills are applied to the demands of diverse legal work, which encompasses a broad array of general and specific laws affecting health and health-related organizations as well as a wide range of public and private practice settings. Second, contemporary health lawyers need to have a solid and well-rounded background across many legal curricular disciplines, and they need to be prepared to work with professionals from other non-legal, health-related disciplines. Third, trends in legal education favor structuring a curriculum not only to incorporate doctrinal knowledge and theories but also to promote sound lawyering skills, effective interpersonal behaviors, and professional values, ethics and habits.