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LAW H 501 Fundamentals of Health Law (4)
Topics include: healthcare reform; obligations to provide care (including EMTALA); medical decision-making law; private health insurance and managed care (including ERISA, HIPAA, and COBRA); Medicare; Medicaid and SCHIP; regulation of healthcare 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-) Dudzinski, Kuzzler
Examines the relationship between bioethics and law. Reviews the basic concepts of both disciplines; their theoretical and practical connections. Analysis of principle legal cases and statutes illustrating such issues as informed consent to treatment, foregoing life support, research with human subjects, confidentiality, and allocation of health care resources. Offered: jointly with B H 535.
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 healthcare delivery efforts. Prerequisite: GENOME 361, GENOME 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 are 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 patients in the dying process and legal and ethical issues they face as well as 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)
Instructor Course Description:
Anna C. Mastroianni
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, healthcare 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 Public Health Law (2) Kuszler
Focuses on the role of law in public health administration and in the increasingly regulated healthcare industry. Provides a foundation in the relevant law for public health officers and healthcare industry administrators. 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 516 Study Abroad: Global Health, Human Rights, and the Rights of the Child in Cambodia (10)
Study abroad exploring the theoretical underpinnings and practical aspects of the rights of the child in the context of Cambodia's health system, focusing on children with disabilities. Approaches the rights of the child from legal and health services perspectives, combining methodologies of research and analysis for practical application. Offered: S.
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; Sp.
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 528 Health Law Practicum (1-6, max. 6)
Provides experience with an approved non-profit organization, judicial or legislative body, or governmental agency on issues related to health law or policy. Students work under the guidance of experienced practitioners. Both student and field supervisor provide the supervising law faculty member with a final written evaluation. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
LAW H 529 HIV and the Law: Legal and Political Developments of the AIDS Crisis (2) Price
Traces thirty years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, beginning with the discovery of the disease through the present. Focuses on many of the socio-political-legal aspects of the HIV/IDS crisis, including discrimination, quarantine, immigration, criminal law, insurance, public heath, and family law issues. Offered: Sp.
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, access to and discrimination in employment, housing, public transportation, and healthcare.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine L. Thompson
LAW H 531 Health Law Advocacy (3) Fox, Lenga-Long
Explores select aspects of legal advocacy for vulnerable patients and surrogate decision-makers in healthcare settings. Focuses on practical, pragmatic solutions to complex health law advocacy issues, using both classroom participation and mock guardianship hearings. Offered: Sp.
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 ethical foundations, principles, and concepts, and U.S. laws, related to the conduct of research with humans subjects and 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. Offered: jointly with G H 516.
LAW H 542 International Humanitarian Law (3-5) Lorenz
Investigates International Humanitarian Law (sometimes called the Law of Armed Conflict), the field concerned with rules developed by civilized nations to protect victims of armed conflict, including the Geneva Conventions. Case studies include the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as developments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Frederick M. Lorenz
LAW H 545 FDA Law (3) Kuszler
Surveys the scope of regulatory authority accorded to the FDA. Focuses on products used in medical care, notably pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, and biologics. Considers food safety, regulation of cosmetics, and oversight of carcinogenic substances. Offered: Sp.
LAW H 550 Medical Products Liability Law (3)
Focuses on product liability claims arising from defective design/development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of medical technologies. Considers the concepts of strict liability, negligence, breach of warrant, and informed consent as well as the relative roles of state and federal law. Offered: W.
LAW H 570 Bio-entrepreneurship and the Law (3)
Covers legal issues in bio-entrepreneurship by tracking product development through a VC-backed start-up company.
LAW H 575 Family Law: Selected Topics (2) Mastroianni, Price
Covers current cutting-edge and complex areas of family law that challenge traditional definitions of "family." Examines marriage, dissolution, and parenting disputes through the lens of "nontraditional" families and families created through medical intervention. Prerequisite: LAW A 580 or permission of instructor. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna C. Mastroianni
LAW H 579 Interactive Seminar (1, max. 30) Austin
Seminar series on topics related to public health genetics, including current bioethical, legal, medical, biotechnology
LAW H 580 Competition in Health Care (3)
Examines the role competition and its opposite, regulation, play in the healthcare industry in the United States. Recommended: course in health or antitrust law.
LAW H 582 Healthcare Fraud and Abuse (2-3)
Considers federal and state laws that impose criminal and civil penalties on healthcare providers for activities ranging from payment for referrals, submissions of false claims, misconduct in medical research, the illegal disclosure of patient information, and the abuse and neglect of patients in long term care settings.
LAW H 590 Advanced Research and Writing Seminar in Health Law (2-, max. 4) Kuszler
Dedicated research and writing seminar. Includes a substantial paper on a health law topic. Offered: WSp.
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.
LAW H 599 Health Law Tutorial (1-4)
Focuses on a specialized area of health law. Prerequisite: limited to students in the graduate program in health law; must be approved by the program director. Offered: AWSp.
