HEALTH LAW

LAW 825

Substantive law of property, life and liability insurance, including study of the fire and automobile forms; regulation of insurance companies, policies and practices.

LAW 747

Broadly explores the role of law in policy development and regulation of the individual employment relationship with a focus on hiring and firing, leave, privacy, health and safety, unemployment insurance, and compensation. Content is largely exclusive of questions of discrimination and collective bargaining.

LAW 913

Introduction to cases, statutes, and legal doctrines related to rights, treatment, and hospitalization and incarceration of mentally ill persons. Includes topics such as involuntary civil commitment; the historical arc of psychiatric hospitals; competency to stand trial assessment and restoration; insanity defense evaluations; moral panics and socio-legal repercussions; right to refuse psychiatric treatment; effectiveness of psychotropic medicine; dangerousness and risk; social science research of eyewitness memory, interrogation and confessions, and jury decision-making; juveniles and treatment; regulation of the mental health system and mental health providers; confidentiality and duty to protect clients; policing functions; and personal mental health for lawyers.

LAW 940

Topics reflect current issues relevant to the practice of law.

LAW/NURSING 768

Interdisciplinary health advocacy clinic providing broad individual and system advocacy for patients facing life changing health events. Advocacy topics include: medical decision-making, insurance, medical debt, disability and related policies and laws.