Health Law Concentration

The NSU Law Center offers a concentration in Health Law, permitting students to obtain recognition for their concentration in health-law-related studies. Completion of the requirements for this concentration will lead to a notation on the qualified student's transcript and a certificate indicating the student's focus, interest and specialized training in this area.

1. Certification Form

1. COURSE AND CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

All students must: (1) complete at least 6 credit hours in approved courses, as listed below, and (2) receive at least a grade of "C" or a "pass" for each credit that counts toward the concentration.

All students must successfully complete each of the following courses:

• Administrative Law
• Health Law

In addition, all students must successfully complete at least four courses from the following list of courses. Credit hours must total at least 16.*

* Completion of the Personal Injury Law Clinic, the Business Practice Clinic or the Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic can count for up to four classroom credit hours. Students successfully completing the Personal Injury Law Clinic, the Business Practice Clinic or the Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic, however, also must successfully complete at least three additional courses from this list to satisfy the concentration requirements. Only one clinic experience may count toward concentration requirements.

• Bioethics Seminar
• Civil Rights of Persons With Disabilities Seminar
• Elder Law Seminar
• Law & Medicine Seminar
• Law & Psychiatry Seminar
• Law of Managed Health Care
• Medical Malpractice
• Nonprofit Organizations  Workshop
• Products Liability
• Scientific Evidence Workshop
• Personal Injury Law Clinic
• Business Practice Clinic with a health law placement, as approved by a NSU health law faculty member
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic with a health law placement, as approved by a NSU health law faculty member
• Estate Planning Workshop, if it addresses advance directives to a significant extent, as approved by a NSU health law faculty member
• A health law course offered in a Summer Abroad Program sponsored by the Law Center
• A health law course offered at another law school but approved by a NSU health law faculty member
• Supervised Research on a health law topic approved by a NSU health law faculty member
• Other health law courses added to the NSU law curriculum and approved by the health law faculty

2. WRITING COMPONENT

All students must complete at least two of their concentration credits in a writing-based course or activity focused on a Health Law topic. Credits earned for this writing component will be counted toward the requirements for earning the concentration. Each of the writing-based courses counting toward the concentration must be completed under the direction of a health law faculty member, but need not be graded by a health law faculty member. Such direction shall include, at a minimum, prior and final approval of the subject matter. Writing-based courses or activities include: All students must complete at least two of their concentration credits in a writing-based course or activity focused on a Health Law topic. Credits earned for this writing component will be counted toward the requirements for earning the concentration. Each of the writing-based courses counting toward the concentration must be completed under the direction of a health law faculty member, but need not be graded by a health law faculty member. Such direction shall include, at a minimum, prior and final approval of the subject matter. Writing-based courses or activities include:

• Seminars satisfying the Law Center's writing requirement
• Law Journal or Law Review papers, when used to satisfy the Law Center's writing requirement
• Independent supervised research projects involving a Health Law topic
• Moot court brief writing involving a Health Law topic
• Other special writing projects involving a Health Law topic

3. SERVICE COMPONENT

In addition to the requirements described above, all students seeking a concentration in Health Law must complete a 20-hour service requirement. This service requirement may be fulfilled in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, active participation in the activities of PULSE! -- the Health Law Students Society, pro bono legal work, or volunteer work for the health law or elder law sections of the Florida Bar.

4. DEADLINES

The Health Law Certification Form must be turned into the Faculty Coordinator of the Concentration by October 15th to appear in the December Hooding Ceremony program and by March 15th to appear in the May Hooding Ceremony program. A completed Certification Form must be turned in by the last day of finals in the student's last semester in order for a notation to be noted on the student's transcript. The Faculty Coordinator of the Concentration may change from year to year, so check with Student Affairs to determine the Faculty Coordinator for a given year.