Concentration Courses

CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS[1]: Concentrators are required to take 21 units of course work related to law and health sciences. All concentrators must successfully complete the year-long concentration seminar in Law and Health Sciences. It is recommended that students complete this seminar during their third year of law school, although second years will be permitted to enroll. Students in the seminar will prepare a scholarly research paper which satisfies the Hastings writing requirement and the Law & Health Sciences Concentration writing requirement. Students completing the Concentration must also take Health Law I, Health Law II, and the Science in Law. The remaining credits can be satisfied by electives from the class lists below, or from courses taken at UCSF (if approved by the Concentration Advisor). At least four of the units must be taken from courses, clinics, or seminars listed in Section B.I. An additional three units can be taken from offerings in Section B.II.

Important Note: The concentration requirements were modified in 2012. The requirements set forth here apply to Concentrators in the Class of 2014 and thereafter. Concentrators in the Classes of 2012 and 2013 must satisfy the requirements set forth in the 2011-12 Academic Catalog. Students in the Class of 2013 who did not take Health Law during the 2011-12 academic year can satisfy that requirement by taking Health Law I (offered Fall 2012). Students in the Class of 2013 who did not take Scientific Methods for Lawyers in 2011-12 can satisfy that requirement by taking Science in Law (3 or 4 units). Please direct any questions about the requirements to the Concentration Advisor.

A. Required Courses (14 units)

Law and Health Sciences Concentration Seminar (2) (This is a year-long course, one unit per semester. Successful completion of the paper satisfies the Hastings writing requirement. Students are encouraged to enroll in this Seminar in their third year.) Health Law I (4) Health Law II (4) Science in Law (4)

B. Qualifying Health and Science Courses, Seminars, and Clinics and Related Electives (7 units)

I. Health and Science Electives Students must take a minimum of four (4) units from this list of courses, seminars or clinics. Students may use up to 6 credit hours of UCSF classes (which convert to 4 UC Hastings units) toward this requirement with the approval of the Concentration Advisor.

Courses:

• Disability Law (3)
• Elder Law (3)
• Food and Drug Law (3)
• Global Health Law & Policy (3)
• Health Care Finance, Administration & Policy (3)
• Law, Psychiatry & the Mental Health System (2) (students may take this course OR Psychiatry & Law Seminar)
• Modern Bioethics: From Nuremburg to the “Octomom” and Beyond (3 or 4)
• Personal Injury Litigation (2)
• Public Health Law (3)
• Advanced Medical Liability Seminar (2)
• Bioethics, Law & Healthcare Decisionmaking Seminar (2)
• Child Maltreatment in Context Seminar (2)
• Forensic Evidence Seminar (2)
• Genetics: Issues in Law & Policy Seminar (2)
• Germs, Globalization and Governance Seminar (2)
• Law and Biosciences (LAB Project Seminar) (3)
• Law and the Human Body Seminar (2)
• Psychiatry & Law Seminar (2) (students may take this course OR Law, Psychiatry & the Mental Health System)
• Public Health & Homelessness Seminar (2)
• Social, Legal & Ethical Implications of Human Reproductive & Genetic Tech. Seminar (2)
• Sociology of the Criminal Justice System Seminar (2)
• Women’s Health & the Law (2)

Clinics:

• Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors (6) (students may apply up to 4 units toward the concentration requirements)
• Civil Justice Individual Representation Clinic—Social Security Disability subject area only (students may apply up to 4 units toward concentration requirements)
• Law & Health Sciences related externship (student must be registered to receive academic credit for this externship under the Hastings Legal Externship Program and the externship must be approved by the Concentration Advisor as sufficiently related to Law & Health Sciences) (students may apply up to 2 units toward concentration requirements)

II. Science and Health Related Electives

Students may apply no more than three (3) units from this list toward the concentration requirements

• Administrative Law (3)
• Children & the Law (2)
• Domestic Violence Law (3)
• Education Law (3)
• Employment Discrimination (1st yr. elective OR Employment Law Seminar (3) (OR other employment law offering approved by concentration advisor)
• ERISA: A Labor Law Perspective (2)
• Family Law (3 or 4)
• Insurance Law (2 or 3)
• Law and Economics (3)
• Law & Social Anthropology Seminar (2)
• Mediation or Negotiation (up to 3 units of any Hastings Mediation or Negotiation course)
• Problem Solving and Professional Judgment (3)
• Public Policy Advocacy Seminar (2)
• Race, Racism & American Law (3)
• Sexuality and the Law (2)
• Special Education Law Seminar (2)