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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This seminar will explore current issues in the law as it relates to media. Students will examine such topics as libel, discovery or editorial materials and privileges, privacy and news- gathering torts, and access to information, including issues arising under the Freedom of Information Act. Throughout the course, hypothetical "problems" will be used to illustrate the points being discussed.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Special permission required.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Special permission of both the College of Law and the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences-Women's Studies Graduate program are required for this course.
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1.00 Credits
Special permission required.
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2.00 - 5.00 Credits
This course will develop knowledge and skills for effective legal practice in a dramatic health care case, arising from high numbers of newborn deaths following heart surgery performed by a surgical team in a large hospital. Faculty will lecture and lead discussion on legal issues and process strategies. The course will end with presentations by health law attorneys on practice experience representing physicians and hospitals. This course will 'cover' the following topics in health law: the structure of the health care enterprise, health care licensing and quality control, staff privileges and hospital-physician contracts, informed consent, direct institutional liability, corporate negligence, complex causation and expert testimony, and vicarious liability.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course addresses legal and philosophical materials relevant to understanding the legal status of animals. The focus is on the status of animals as property, the doctrine of standing, and the nature of legal rights as applied to nonhuman animals. The course incorporates developing tort law concepts, criminal law, and constitutional law, and considers the evolution of the law's understanding and treatment of animals by examining federal and state statutes and policies.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to National Security Law. Areas of coverage include: the international law of conflict management, American security doctrine and deterrence, security aspects of sea and space law, athe national institutional framework, individual rights and responsibilities, and other national legal issues. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) will be considered.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines the transactional aspects of health care law. The course first considers how health care services are reimbursed by providing students with an understanding of the complex interaction of private insurance, the federal Medicare program, and the state/federal Medicaid program. The course also provides an analysis of the regulatory schemes regulating the business relationships between health care providers, including fraud and abuse law, Stark II, HIPAA and Antitrust laws. In addition, the course provides an overview of the rapidly evolving organizational forms through which health care is delivered, such as integrated delivery systems, physician practice management companies and joint ventures. All issues will be reviewed from a transactional lawyer's perspective and case studies will be used to arrive at practical legal solutions.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is designed to meet needs of students who have taken other law-medicine classes and wish to study criminal law topics in greater depth, and students who have not taken other law-medicine classes, but whose anticipated career paths may include criminal defense work or becoming assistant prosecutors. The primary instructors for this class are experienced forensic psychiatrists; they will supplement their presentations and class discussions with presentations by other mental health clinicians with extensive experience in performing mental evaluations for courts. Course topics include waiving 'Miranda' rights, false confessions, trial competence, 'pro se' defendants, mental state defense, sex offenders, violence, capital punishment, juvenile delinquency, and maligering.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Topics in Law: topics will vary depending on interests and faculty availability.
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