Academic Programs
Certificate in 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.
Students seeking to obtain the Certificate must earn fifteen credits from the list of approved health law courses. Successful applicants will complete two required courses and an additional nine elective credits. Further, students must maintain a minimum 3.2 GPA average across all health law coursework. Qualifying courses are listed below.
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 206: Sexual Orientation and the Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Same Sex Marriage
- Law 250: Seminar: Sexual Trafficking
- Law 250: Seminar: Special Education
- Law 250: Seminar: Legal Aspects of AIDS
- Law 250: Seminar: Legal Aspects of Medical Ethics
- Law 250: Seminar: Children and the Law
- Law 358: Employee Benefits
- Law 402: Antitrust
- Law 403: Forensic Evidence
- Law 417: Labor Law
- Law 434: Public Health Law
- Law 436: Journal of Health Care Law Editorial Board
- Law 462: Insurance Law
- Law 472: Mental Health Law
- Law 524: Field Placement (Externship) in Health Law
- Law 604: Tax Exempt Organizations
- Law 702: Elder Law
- Law 711: Legal Issues of AIDS
- Law 713: Health Care Privacy Law
- Law 714: Bioethics and The Law
- Law 716: Disability Law
- Law 719: Health Care Fraud and Abuse
- Law 721: Genetics and the Law
- Law 724: Medical Malpractice Survey
- Law 728: Food and Drug Law
- Law 730: Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law
- Law 731: Assisted Reproduction and the Law
- Law 732: Dispute Resolution in the Health Care Industry
- Law 734: Health Care Contracts
- Law 735: Health information Technology Law and Policy
Students may only apply for one certificate.
