The Maurice A. Deane School of Law has received an “A+” rating for its Health Law offerings from preLaw magazine. Hofstra Law is one of 15 law schools to receive an “A+” rating for Health Law.
The ratings were announced in preLaw’s Back to Law School 2023 issue in the article “Top Law Schools: Health Law.” PreLaw bases the ratings on the breadth and depth of a law school’s curricular offerings, including concentrations, clinics, centers, internships/externships, and dual-degree programs, among others.
Hofstra Law’s offerings in Health Law include:
- More than 15 courses, such as Bioethics and the Law; Law of Medical Product Discovery, Development, and Commercialization; Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics; and Law and Medicine: Cooperative Professionalism, which brings law students to a local hospital where they join teams of medical students on clinical rounds
- Concentration in Health Law
- Advanced Research Fellowship in Health Law
- Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy
- Medical-Legal Partnership with Northwell Health, which provides legal services for patients facing issues that contribute to poor health, such as denial of health care coverage, social services, immigrants’ rights, or disability benefits.
- Online MA in Health Law and Policy and LLM in Health Law and Policy programs
- Hofstra University Bioethics Center, a collaboration of Hofstra’s law and medical schools
- Robert W. Entenmann Veterans Law Clinic, in which Hofstra Law students assist local veterans in obtaining the disability and health care benefits to which they are entitled
- Externships with organizations such as Catholic Health Services and New York State’s Mental Hygiene Legal Service
- Clinical Bioethics Certificate program, which blends academic coursework with a clinical skills component that allows participants to learn — and be assessed in — clinical competencies in preparation for real-life consultations in medical settings
- JD/Master of Public Health (MPH) joint degree program with Hofstra University’s School of Health Professions and Human Services
- PreLaw magazine is a National Jurist publication.
Read the full article “Top Law Schools: Health Law” in preLaw’s online Back to School 2023 issue.
