SEM-6045: Seminar: Health Law

In this course, you will choose a health law topic on which to focus your attention for the semester, research intensively, and write about in a paper that will, if you desire, fulfill your Advanced Research and Writing Requirement. In the process, we will address how to choose an interesting and appropriate topic on which to write an extended paper; research topics in health law, policy, and medicine; use and cite research correctly; avoid plagiarism; write a useful paper outline; prepare a first paper draft; edit one’s own and others’ work; and write a polished final draft. Students may take this course for 2 or 3 credits. Students planning to satisfy the long paper requirement in this course, and students who have already satisfied the long paper requirement and plan to write another long paper in this course, should register for three credits.Blended courses open to all J.D. students.