The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University launched a fully virtual program in Health Law and Policy. The first of its kind at the school, the program will cater to the increasing demand for legal education in the health care sector.
Haub Law has offered other similar programs for health law and policy, but this online expansion of the Advanced Certificate in Health Law and Policy is designed to accommodate students looking for flexibility in their schooling. The online course will feature live virtual instruction and asynchronous activities delivered by experts on the faculty. The program can be completed on a part-time basis and completed in just a single year.
The program will also accept non-lawyers such as insurance, risk management and compliance professionals, hospital administrators, or clinicians, and will consist of 15 credit hours with 4 core courses, including a workshop in lawyering skills.
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Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute in St. Paul, Minn., has received faculty approval for a new certificate. The Native American Law and Sovereignty Certificate will train students to explore the many different cultural aspects of Native American law, such as Indigenous legal principles, tribal law, federal Indian law, and the relationships between Tribal Nations and other governmental entities and systems.
The certificate will teach students foundational skills to practice in legal settings involving Native American law. With the certificate, Mitchell Hamline joins approximately 17 other national Native American law programs meeting the need for legal practitioners in this field of law.
“The term Native American law is the most inclusive to encompass American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Indigenous peoples of North America,” the school says.
Another feature of the certificate is the Native Law Clinic: Tribal Code Drafting, which gives students a small-firm simulation to work directly with in-house counsel at tribal governments to write laws, regulations, and other legal documents supporting tribal sovereignty. The certificate also offers courses on international Indigenous law and the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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New England Law | Boston introduced a new certificate program in tax law in response to demand from both alumni and current students. Professor Wilton B. Hyman, who also serves as a co-advisor for the school’s Small Firm Practice concentration, will run the program. Hyman has expertise in tax law and policy, how tax law and race intersect, and health care law. He has also written several articles on tax issues and the Black business community.
The new certificate will allow students to form a strong foundation in tax law, which will help them deepen their understanding of the policy considerations underlying those subjects. It will also afford them the ability to interpret, apply, and plan or predict the likely result when addressing a specific tax issue.
Students can earn the certificate concurrently with their law degree by completing a designated number of credits with a specified GPA in program-specific courses. Each certificate program also has a required experiential learning component, which includes internships, clinics, moot court/mock trial competitions, and other options.
