Health Law LLM

Program Overview

The Health Law LLM program explores legal, ethical, and moral dilemmas in healthcare, with a focus on addressing health inequalities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of health law and its intersection with human rights, ethics, and social justice, preparing graduates for careers in health law, healthcare policy, compliance, and legal research. The program offers distinctive research connections and flexible study options, including intercalation for medical students and individual module enrollment.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This LLM program in Health Law explores topical legal, ethical, and moral dilemmas related to health and healthcare, with a focus on addressing inequalities in health. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the law's role in regulating health and healthcare, while also examining the intersection of health law with human rights, ethics, and social justice. The program is designed for individuals with a legal background or a healthcare background who are interested in the interface between these two fields.

Outline:

Core Modules:

• Health Law I: This module introduces students to the fundamental principles of health law, covering topics such as the legal framework for healthcare, patient rights, and the regulation of medical professionals.
• Human Rights and Health Care Law: This module examines the intersection of human rights law and healthcare, exploring issues such as access to healthcare, reproductive rights, and the rights of vulnerable populations.
• Inequalities and Health: This module focuses on the social determinants of health and the legal and policy responses to health inequalities.
It examines issues such as access to healthcare, health disparities, and the impact of social factors on health outcomes.
• Health Law II: This module delves deeper into specific areas of health law, such as clinical negligence, mental health law, and bioethics.
• Research Topic in Health Law: This module provides students with the opportunity to develop their research skills and explore a specific topic in health law.

Optional Modules:

• Mental Health Law: This module examines the legal framework for mental health care, including issues such as involuntary treatment, capacity, and the rights of people with mental illness.
• Bioethics: This module explores the ethical and legal issues surrounding emerging technologies in healthcare, such as genetic engineering, assisted reproduction, and end-of-life care.
• Advanced Clinical Negligence: This module provides an in-depth analysis of the legal principles and procedures involved in clinical negligence claims.
• Autonomy, Capacity and Consent: This module examines the legal and ethical principles surrounding patient autonomy, capacity, and informed consent.
• Health in the Workplace: This module explores the legal framework for workplace health and safety, including issues such as occupational health, disability discrimination, and the regulation of hazardous substances.

Assessment:

The program utilizes a variety of assessment methods, including:

• Research papers
• Scenario/problem questions
• Video presentations
• Dissertation

Teaching:

The program is taught through interactive seminars, where students engage in critical discussion of the topics with their fellow students. Before each seminar, students are required to research the answers to a set of questions and come prepared to discuss their ideas and findings. The program also utilizes online lectures for the "Health in the Workplace" optional module.

Careers:

The Health Law LLM program prepares graduates for a variety of careers in the legal and healthcare fields, including:

• Health law specialist: Graduates can work as lawyers specializing in health law, representing clients in healthcare litigation, advising healthcare providers on legal compliance, or advocating for policy changes in the healthcare sector.
• Healthcare policy analyst: Graduates can work in government agencies or non-profit organizations, analyzing healthcare policy, developing policy recommendations, and advocating for changes in healthcare law.
• Healthcare compliance officer: Graduates can work in healthcare organizations, ensuring compliance with healthcare laws and regulations, developing compliance programs, and conducting internal audits.
• Legal researcher: Graduates can work in law firms, government agencies, or academic institutions, conducting legal research on health law issues.

Other:

• The program is taught by leading researchers in health law, and students have the opportunity to attend guest lectures and seminars organized by the Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law.
• The program offers distinctive connections with ongoing research projects, doctoral students, and a thriving research environment focused on health and the law.
• Students can study individual modules on a flexible basis, allowing them to build up credits gradually and complete the Health Law LLM at their own pace.
• Credits achieved on individual modules can be used as accreditation of prior learning (APL) if students decide to join the full Health Law LLM degree.

UK Students

• Starting in September 2024
• LLM: £10,700
• Per individual module: £980

International Students

• Starting in September 2024
• LLM: £18,950
• Per individual module: £1,740
• You will need to pay a deposit of £3,000 to secure your place for the full LLM option.
This will be subtracted from your total tuition fee.