This concentration offers a comprehensive foundation in the areas in which health law intersects with business, public policy and a variety of federal regulations concerning the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries.
You’ll examine key topics such as bioethics, public health law, healthcare fraud and disability law, and you’ll explore methods of dispute resolution used specifically in healthcare. We also give you the flexibility to chart your own path through the program and select courses that most interest you and that provide the skills to assist the type of clientele you plan to represent.
Because the School of Law shares a campus with our medical, nursing and health sciences schools, you’ll also have opportunities for interprofessional collaboration and access to a wide range of research materials related to the healthcare industry. Starting in your second year, you can participate in our diverse clinic and externship courses, and be part of our medical-legal partnership, or our Health Law Externship, where you may be placed with the Department of Public Health, a hospital or pharmaceutical legal department, or a law firm practicing health law. And you may apply to write for Quinnipiac’s Health Law Journal, join the Health Law Society and attend our speaker series that invites prominent figures from the health law field to campus.
For specific information on the concentration offerings, please contact:
Professor Leonard Dwarica
Quinnipiac University School of Law
275 Mount Carmel Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Telephone: 203-582-3879
Fax: 203-582-3244
Email: leonard.dwarica@qu.edu
Health Law Concentration
Requirements
To be eligible for the Health Law Concentration Certificate, a student must complete 21 credits as described below. Students must also complete an Experiential Requirement for three (3) credits which will apply to the 21-credit requirement.
- Students must take Administrative Law (LAWS 114) (3 credits) and Health Law (LAWS 345) (3 credits). Credits for these courses will count toward the 21-credit Concentration requirement, thereby requiring 12 additional Health Law–related credits.
- These courses do not have to be taken prior to taking other courses in the Concentration, but it is strongly recommended that Administrative Law and Health Law be taken in a full-time student’s second year, if possible. Part time students should try to take them in the Spring semester of their second year or the Fall semester of their third year.
1. Coursework
In addition to the above requirements, to receive the Certificate, a student must earn an additional twelve (12) Health Law Specialty Credits from the following courses. (Not all these courses are offered every year.)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LAWS 305 | Federal Income Tax | 4 |
| LAWS 320 | Public Health Law | 3 |
| LAWS 331 | Intellectual Property | 3-4 |
| LAWS 340 | Corporate Compliance in Health Care Industry | 3 |
| LAWS 349 | Antitrust | 3-4 |
| LAWS 350 | Health Care Antitrust | 3-4 |
| LAWS 352 | Health Care Business Transactions | 3 |
| LAWS 393 | Business Planning | 4 |
| LAWS 409 | Drug and Device Law | 2-3 |
| LAWS 414 | Food Law | 2-3 |
| LAWS 450 | Nonprofit Organizations | 2 |
| LAWS 549 | Bioethics | 3 |
| LAWS 588 | ||
| LAWS 589 | ||
| LAWS 601 | Managed Health Care | 2 |
| LAWS 604 | Medical Malpractice | 2 |
| LAWS 625 | Health Information Privacy and Security | 2 |
| LAWS 633 | Intellectual Property in Life Science | 2 |
| LAWS 676 | Anatomy for Lawyers | 2 |
| LAWS 685 | Health Policy | 3 |
| LAWS 717 | Law, Psych., Probate Courts P | 2 |
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LAWS 685: currently offered online asynchronously in the Summer semester in conjunction with HM 671.
• LAWS 340: currently offered online asynchronously in the Summer semester in conjunction with HM 640.
2. Experiential Requirement:
Students must earn at least three (3) credits in a:
- Clinic (i.e., Civil Justice Clinic, Tax Clinic, Prosecution Appellate Clinic, Mediation Clinic, Defense Appellate Clinic),
- health law externship, or a
- health law–related experiential course
These credits will count toward the basic 21-credit Concentration requirement.
a. Determination of the “health law” status of any given experiential option will be made by the Concentration Director and the Assistant Dean of Experiential Education.
b. The experiential requirement for the Health Law Concentration will be waived only in rare circumstances, and only if the student has substantial health law–related work experience or substantial experience in the healthcare field (eg, as a healthcare provider). This determination will be made by the Concentration Director.
A full-time student seeking a waiver from the experiential requirement for the Health Law Concentration must apply to the Concentration Director for the waiver not later than the beginning of the l semester of the second year. A part-time student seeking a waiver must apply to the Concentration Director for the waiver not later than the beginning of the semester of his/her year.
c. If the experiential requirement for the Concentration is waived, or if the student fails to earn the three credits for any reason, the student must earn the 3 credits by taking an additional course(s) in the Concentration.
3. Writing Requirement
The substantial paper written to fulfill the Advanced Writing Requirement must be on an approved health law topic. The topic must be approved, in advance, by the Concentration Director unless the paper is written for the Quinnipiac Health Law Journal. A paper written for another journal may qualify, if the topic is approved, in advance, by the Concentration Director.
4. Waiver of Requirements
The Concentration Director and/or the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs may waive any requirements for the Concentration.