Georgetown’s Health Law LL.M. programs train lawyers to apply their specialized legal skills to improve population health in the United States and globally. The innovative full- or part-time courses of study explore the intersections of health and law.
Global Health Law
Global Health Law is the flagship course offered by Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. This course is open to both Georgetown JD and LLM students and is compulsory for students in the National and Global Health Law LL.M. and the Global Health Law and Governance LL.M.
A newly established field, global health law encompasses international law and policy that directly or indirectly affects global health, including treaties, regulations, global strategies and other non-binding standards, and national and international jurisprudence. The field of study includes both legal instruments designed to protect public health as well as the interaction between legal instruments from other international legal regimes and public health considerations and concerns. This course provides a strong foundation in these laws and policies, including governance of the World Health Organization, the International Health Regulations, and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
In examining the application and effectiveness of global health law, this course provides a foundation for global health issues, including infectious diseases (such as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza) and noncommunicable diseases (such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease and their causes, including obesity, tobacco, and alcohol). In this course, students will hear from leading voices in global health and the law and benefit from the expertise of Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute.
List of Health Law Courses
Georgetown Law offers an unparalleled health law curriculum, with more than 40 courses addressing domestic and global health law.
Access to Health Care and Coverage: Law and Policy
Access to Reproductive Healthcare Under the Law (How We Got to Dobbs and What’s Next?)
Addiction and Mental Health Law
Addiction and Mental Health Law and Policy
Aging and Law Seminar
Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine, The Legal Issues Seminar
Anthropology, Global Health, and the Law
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Law
Bioethics and Social Justice
Bioethics and Social Justice
Biotechnology and the Law Seminar
Business and Human Rights in the Global Economy
Business, Human Rights and Sustainability
Communicating Public and Global Health Law
Decolonization, Global Health & the Law
Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights in the International Human Rights System Employee Benefits: Health & Welfare Plans
Federal Regulation of Biopharma: Commercial Considerations, Risk Identification and Mitigation
Follow the Science? Medicine in the Law’s Crossfire
Food and Drug Law
Food Justice Law and Policy (Fieldwork Practicum)
Food Law Seminar
Gender and Sexuality
Global Drug Law and Regulation
Global Health Law
Global Health Law: An Intensive, Problem-Based Exploration
Global Health Security and the Law
Health and Human Rights (Project-Based Practicum)
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Seminar
Health Care Law and Policy
Health Care Privacy and Security
Health Equity and Social Justice
Health Information Technology and the Law
Health Law and Regulation
Health, Law and Islam
Indigenous Health Law and Access to Health Care
Industry Epidemics: NCDs, Commercial Risk Factors and the Law
Intellectual Property and Medicines
International Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Global Health
International Right to Health
International Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, & Public Health
Law and Regulation of Drugs, Biologics and Devices
Law, Healthy Lifestyles, and Business Regulation
LGBTQ Health Law and Policy
Medical Malpractice Seminar
National and Global Health Law: O’Neill Colloquium
Nutrition Law and Policy
O’Neill Institute Practicum: Regulating Alcohol, Tobacco & Food in International and Comparative Law (Project-Based Practicum)
Pan-Epidemics and PHEICS: COVID-19, EBOLA, and What’s Next?
Pandemics, Global Health, and the Law Seminar
Public Health and International Investment Law
Public Health Emergencies: Enabling Preparedness and Response through Law and Policy
Public Health Law & Policy in Global Perspective
Public Health Law and Ethics
Public Health Law and Ethics
Public-Private Partnerships: Law and Governance
Regulating Private Health Insurance and Health Care Prices: Legal and Policy Disputes
Reproductive Health and International Human Rights Law (Fieldwork Practicum)
Reproductive Justice Seminar
Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Rights and Justice Seminar
Research with Human Subjects: Law, Policy & Ethics
Survey of Employee Benefits Law
The Affordable Care Act: Law and Policy Governing Private Health Insurance
The First 1000 Days: Global Health Law & Policy from Gestation to Age Two
The Mind and the Law
The Nuremberg Trials, the Doctors Trials
The Role of WHO in Global Health Law and Governance
Toxic Chemical Law and Advocacy (Fieldwork Practicum)
US Health Law and Diplomacy in a Global Context