Healthcare Law & Administration LL.M. Curriculum
The LL.M. in Health Law & Administration is for those who have a law degree and are interested in learning more about health law. Potential students include current employees of health systems or agencies as well as those wanting to make a career shift to healthcare.
Loyola’s LL.M. degree requires completion of 24 semester credit hours and a thesis paper of publishable quality. The thesis requirement may be completed by taking three (3) credit hours of Legal Research Supervised Paper (LAW-L898) or any seminar or course (including required or elective courses listed below), which is at least two (2) credit hours and in which a paper related to health law of at least 20 pages is required or offered by the instructor, where the topic of the paper is subject to the approval of the Academic Director of the Health Law Program. The LL.M. program can be completed in two semesters or spread over up to three years.
Required Core Courses (11-12 hours total)
LAW-L807 Introduction to Health Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L912 Health Law II: Access, Regulation, Compliance and Strategy (3 hrs)
LAW-L898 Legal Research / Other Course (thesis paper - see above) (2-3 hrs)
Plus one of the following:
LAW-L844 Administrative Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L847 Legislation and Regulation (3 hrs)
LAW-L940 Risk and the Administrative State (3 hrs)
Elective Courses: Law (9-13 hours total)
LAW-L746 Business Organizations I (3 hrs)
LAW-L747 Business Organizations II (3 hrs)
LAW-L781 Law and Poverty (2 hrs)
LAW-L800 Health Care Privacy and Security (3 hrs)
LAW-L801 Intellectual Property Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L817 Mediation and Arbitration(3 hrs)
LAW-L814 Incarceration Law and Policy (2 hrs)
LAW-L822 Bioethics and the Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L825 Medical Malpractice (2 or 3 hrs)
LAW-L830 Reproductive Health Law (2 hrs)
LAW-L834 Environmental Justice (2 or 3 hrs)
LAW-L854 Insurance Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L855 Children and the Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L883 Critical Justice and Systemic Advocacy (3 hrs)
LAW-L896 Professional Seminar: Medicare Law (2 hrs)
LAW-L900 Approved Health-Related Academic Externship (1-3 hrs)
LAW-L902 Elder and Disabled Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L914 Health Care Compliance (3 hrs)
LAW-L915 Healthcare Fraud and Abuse (3 hrs)
LAW-L916 Disability and the Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L917 Public Health Law (2 or 3 hrs)
LAW-L933 Asylum and Refugee Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L937 Selected Topics in Immigration (2 hrs)
LAW-L938 Health in Immigration and Citizenship Law (1 or 2 hrs)
LAWM-L705 U.S. Law and Legal Analysis (1 credit)
LAWM-L710 Graduate Seminar in Health and Environmental Law (3 hrs)
Elective Courses: Non-Law (0-3 hours)
MGT-B700 Organizational Behavior and Leadership (3 Credits)
MGT-B705 Strategic Communication (3 Credits)
MGT-B710 Operations and Process Management (3 Credits)
MGT-B725 Quality and Performance Excellence (3 Credits)
MGT-B740 Business of Healthcare (3 Credits)
For more information, please contact the Health Law Program Director, Professor Nicole Tuchinda.