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Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University J.D. Concentration Health Law
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

J.D. Concentration Health Law

Juris Doctor

English

Full time

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About: The J.D. Concentration in Health Law focuses on legal issues in the healthcare sector. Students will explore topics such as healthcare regulations, ethics, and policies affecting the delivery of health services. The program aims to equip students with knowledge and skills for a career in health law through coursework and practical experiences.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in various areas, including health law compliance, legal advocacy for healthcare organizations, policy development, and government regulation. They may work as health law attorneys, consultants, or regulatory affairs specialists in public health agencies or private law firms.

Health Law is now a complicated, heterogeneous domain of law. Practicing Health Law may call for special skills in corporate law, bioethics, family law, Internet and technology law, and tort law, as well as in other areas of law.

The Health Law concentration program thus recognizes that to prepare students for the careers in Health Law, they must have significant flexibility to design programs of study that allow them to take advantage of the Law School's broad curriculum, while offering the opportunity for greater specialization.

Accordingly, students may select between a general Concentration in Health Law and more specialized programs of study in Health Law and Bioethics and Health Law: Institutional Structures and Financing.