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LAW H 501 Fundamentals of Health Law (4)
Topics include: health care reform; obligations to provide care (including EMTALA); medical decision-making law; private health insurance and managed care (including ERISA, HIPPA, and COBRA); Medicare; Medicaid and SCHIP; regulation of health care providers; staff privileges and hospital-physician contracts; tax exemption; antitrust, and fraud and abuse laws.
LAW H 502 Medical Malpractice (3/4)
LAW H 503 Medical Ethics and Jurisprudence (3-)
LAW H 504 Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues in Public Health Genetics (3) Kuszler, Mastroianni
Equips the student to anticipate and assess potential legal, ethical, and social barriers complicating the incursion of new genetic advances, information, and technologies into public and private health care delivery efforts. Prerequisite: GENET 371 or equivalent. Offered: jointly with PHG 512/B H 514; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna C. Mastroianni
LAW H 506 International Bioethics, Social Justice and Health Seminar (1. max 3) Kuszler, Rivin
Explores case studies of ethical dilemmas in research and medical practice and violations of international human rights norms in the design, implementation and evaluation of health programs and policies. Bioethics and human rights law will be the foundational tools for critically evaluating global health impact. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
LAW H 507 Law, Medicine, and Ethics in the Context of Pain Management (2)
Reviews the problem of physicians failing to relieve pain of the patients in the dying process and the legal and ethical issues they face as well as the cultural sources of the problem.
LAW H 508 Beginning of Life: Rights and Choices (2)
Addresses the controversial legal issues engendered by our increasing control over the beginning of life. Focuses on the law, regulation, and policy implications of contraception; new reproductive and genetic technologies, including surrogate parenthood, sperm and egg donation, in-vitro fertilization, and other methods of conquering infertility; and abortion.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna C. Mastroianni
LAW H 509 End of Life: Rights and Choices (2)
Address controversial legal issues engendered by our increasing control over the end of life. Focuses on patient autonomy issues at the end of life including withdrawal of life support, surrogate decision making, advance directives, and patient choice to hasten death with medical assistance (physician aid in dying). Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven D. Milam
LAW H 510 Topics in Law and Medicine ([1-4]-, max. 4)
LAW H 511 International Research Ethics, Law and Policy (3) Kuszler, Rivin
Exploration of legal requirements and ethical principles related to responsible conduct and research in a variety of different government structures, health care systems and research environment. Compares and contrasts law and ethical standards applicable to research enterprises in developing countries, industrialized countries, and ethically distinct communities. Offered: jointly with B H 553; A.
LAW H 512 Health Law (2) Kuszler
Analysis of law, the legal system and current legal problems as they related to the financing and delivery of health care services. Offered: jointly with HSERV 551; A.
LAW H 515 Global Health Law (3) Kuszler
Provides an examination of the legal, economic, social, ethical, and political aspects of global health. Explores the emergence of global health law as a multilateral tool to address health disparities and improve the health of the vulnerable. Offered: A.
LAW H 520 Genetics and the Law (3) Kuszler
Explores and analyzes legal issues arising from genetic technologies and information. Statutes, regulations, and cases demonstrate the constitutional, contract, tort, criminal, and family law use of genetic science to determine rights, disputes, and controversies. Prerequisite: LAW H 504/B H 514/PHG 512 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with PHG 523.
LAW H 524 Forensic Evidence (3)
Examines the application of the rules of evidence in cases that involve forensic evidence. Examines paradigmatic cases involving homicide and physical or sexual assault, although the principles examined are applicable generally in civil and criminal cases.
LAW H 525 Criminal Law and Procedure (3)
Provides an understanding of U.S. criminal law and criminal procedure. Explores basic principles of liability, defenses, and basic constitutional principles governing interactions between police and suspects. Open to forensic nursing students and graduate law students, but not JD students.
LAW H 530 Disability Law (3)
Considers the definition of disability as defined by statute (ADA, FRA), case law, and social perception. Focuses on education law and entitlements, assess to and discrimination in employment, housing, public transportation, and health care.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine L. Thompson
LAW H 531 Disability Clinic (4-, max. 12)
Clinical training in disability law issues, including access to Medicaid and other public benefits, assistive technology issues, transit accessibility, and low-wage worker accommodation issues, among other possible issues. Students represent clients at Columbia Legal Services under supervision of CLS attorneys. Prerequisite: LAW H 530.
LAW H 534 Mental Health and the Law (3)
Covers medical and legal definitional issues as well as major civil and criminal law issues, including standards and procedures for involuntary commitment; consent for, and informed refusal of, treatment; de-institutionalization/community-based treatment; the insanity defense; competency to stand trial; and punishment of the mentally ill convict.
LAW H 536 Research Ethics and Regulation (3) Mastroianni
Explores the ethical foundations, principles and concepts, and U.S. laws related to the conduct of research with humans subjects. and (3) the responsible conduct of research Required for graduate students in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine. Offered: jointly with B H 536. W.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna C. Mastroianni
LAW H 540 Health and Human Rights (3)
Examines the basic concepts in the fields of human rights law and public health, and uses those concepts to examine the interdependence and tensions between the two fields. Introduction to the fields of public health and human rights law, examining the impact of health policies and programs on human rights.
LAW H 570 Biotechnology and the Law (3)
LAW H 580 Advanced Health Law (3)
Considers the impact of antitrust law, fraud, and abuse prohibitions, the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, tax law and other state and federal laws upon emerging health care entities. Focuses on integrated health care delivery systems. Prerequisite: LAW H 501.
LAW H 594 Animal Law (3)
Examines substantive law and procedure, specific cases, legislation, and background societal mores that force an evolution and backlash in the level of jurisprudential and legislative comfort with new ways of seeing and speaking about animals other than humans. Offered: WSp.
