Program Overview
The Master of Health Law is a flexible postgraduate degree designed for both lawyers and non-lawyers seeking career advancement or academic growth in healthcare law. Offered over one year full-time (part-time available), the program covers legal and ethical issues in healthcare, with a focus on intensive units taught by industry practitioners and international experts. Career paths include roles in health law, ethics, and policy, addressing emerging challenges in healthcare.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Master of Health Law (MHL) is a flexible, specialist qualification covering wide-ranging legal and ethical issues in healthcare. The program is designed for lawyers and non-lawyers who want to upgrade their qualifications for career advancement or professional and academic interest. Students learn to identify, analyze, and develop solutions to complex legal, ethical, and policy issues affecting health and health services.
Outline:
- Program Structure: The Master of Health Law is a postgraduate coursework degree focusing on a wide range of legal and ethical issues in healthcare and in the governance of health.
- Duration: 1 year full-time (Available part-time).
- Intake: Check semester start dates.
- Location: Delivered across two locations: Camperdown/Darlington University of Sydney and Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
- Study Mode: Face to face.
- Credit Points: 48 total credit points required to complete the course.
- Course Units: The core and elective units of study cover a wide range of areas, including:
- Healthcare law
- Impact of new technologies on healthcare
- Regulation of the health professions
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Public health law
- Mental health law
- Global health law and governance
- Specialist fields
- Prerequisites: Students who do not hold a law degree or equivalent from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System prior to undertaking other law units of study.
Teaching:
- Teaching Staff: Domestic practitioners and international visitors teach 60 percent of the program.
- Unique Approaches: The program offers 80 percent of its units on an intensive basis.
Careers:
- Target Audience: The program is designed for lawyers or non-lawyers who wish to upgrade their qualifications for the purposes of career advancement or professional and academic interest.
- Career Paths:
- Health law concerns the legal issues arising from the provision of health care services, the impact of new technologies on health care, the regulation of the health professions, and public health.
- Potential careers in legal, ethical, and policy issues affecting health and health services.
Other:
- Accreditation: Seminars, courses, and units of study offered under Sydney Law School's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program meet the requirements for individual members of the Law Society of New South Wales or the New South Wales Bar Association to maintain legal registration through continuing education.
- Rankings: The University of Sydney is ranked 16th in the world in the discipline of law by the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2023.
