Health Law Area of Focus

Health law is a fast-growing field, and South Florida is a major center for health care. For students interested in specializing in this area, we now offer an area of focus in health law.

Students may fulfill the requirements for this area of focus through taking advantage of a number of exciting classes and experiential opportunities related to health law.

Requirements

This Area of Focus requires a total of 15 credits: 7 from requires courses, and 8 from elective courses.

Courses

Please note:

  • Not all of these courses are offered every semester
  • For eligible clinics, a maximum of 4 credits may count toward the area of focus
  • All Independent Study papers must be approved in advance by the program coordinator

 

  • Administrative Law Legal Research
  • Bioethics Mediation
  • Children and Youth Law Clinic I
  • Children and Youth Law Clinic II
  • Communications and Negotiations in Entertainment and Sports
  • Community, Equity, Innovation & Resource Lab
  • Disability Law
  • Environmental Justice Clinic I
  • Environmental Justice Clinic II
  • Food and Drug Law (FDA)
  • Gender Violence, Social Justice and Law
  • Genomic Medicine, Ethics and the Law
  • Health Law: Fraud and Abuse
  • Health Law: Practice and Workshop
  • Health Rights Clinic I
  • Health Rights Clinic II
  • Hospitals, Health Care Services and Access: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
  • Human Rights Clinic I
  • Human Rights Clinic II
  • Independent Study
  • Insurance Law
  • Privacy Law
  • Researching the Administrative State
  • Special Topics in Mental Health Law
  • The Administrative State: The Current Moment
  • The Criminalization of Homelessness: Causes, Policy, and Practical Lawyering

  • Administrative Law
  • Health Law and Policy

Faculty

Faculty Coordinator

Gabriel Scheffler

Affiliated Faculty

Contact Information

For questions, please contact Professor Gabriel Scheffler at gscheffler@law.miami.edu

Note to all law school students: Students are not eligible to apply for a Concentration/Area of Focus during their final semester at the law school.

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