Health Law at william Mitchell
Mitchell’s health law curriculum is designed to help students specialize in specific practice areas, from health care regulations to bioethics to mental health to reproductive rights. Our health law professors are nationally respected scholars who also practice the law. They understand the complex health law legal theories and policy as well as their impact on real people.
Health Law at William Mitchell Courses
The Public Health Law Center
Mitchell’s health law courses combine theory and skills training in key areas:
Students interested in a career that combines law and public health have a nationally-recognized resource at Mitchell. The Public Health Law Center focuses on encouraging healthier lives by working to reduce the harm caused by tobacco use, prevent childhood obesity, support healthy eating, and encourage physical activity. Dozens of local, national, and international health organizations regularly consult with the Public Health Law Center on various legislative and policy issues.
• assisted reproductive technology and the law
• biomedical ethics • drug and medical devices • elder law • food law and safety • health law regulation • public health • the finance of health care • medical malpractice. Students augment their classroom work with real-life experience gained through our centers, institutes, and clinics.
The center provides adjunct professors who teach classes in public health law, appellate advocacy, and legislation. In addition, many Mitchell students work for the center as research assistants, gaining valuable real-world experience.
Only at Mitchell: The Law and Psychiatry Clinic
Externships
Student Groups
With nearly 400 placements each academic year, our externship programs offers students opportunities to gain real-world experience and build a network of contacts in the health law field. Recent externship placements include the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Elder Law and Estate Planning Society • Health Law Society • Disability Law Society
National Healthcare Decisions Day at William Mitchell
Kimberley Dayton Expert in health care organization, financing, and long term care
psychiatric and psychological examinations,
The National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) initiative is a collaborative effort of national, state, and community organizations committed to ensuring that all adults with decisionmaking capacity in the United States have the information and opportunity to communicate and document their health care decisions. Each year, Mitchell students host a day-long event during which they assist the public in completing advance health care directives.
Phebe Saunders Haugen Expert in clinical bioethics and end-of-life care
represents the person being evaluated.
Eric S. Janus Mitchell’s dean and a nationally recognized expert in mental health and sex offender law
The law student role is that of legal advisor to
Full-time Faculty Mary Pat Byrn Mitchell’s associate dean for administration and an expert in assisted reproductive technology
The Law and Psychiatry Clinic is a joint academic project of Mitchell, the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Minnesota Medical School, and State Operated Forensic Services. Students working in the clinic partner with law professors, medical doctors, and psychologists to provide free forensic generally at the request of the attorney who
the team, and liaison between the referring attorney and the team. The law students are able to observe the evaluations (with appropriate consents) and participate in case conferences, in which the mental health findings and applicable legal standards are discussed.
HEALTH LAW
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