2009-2010 Courses

UC Berkeley School of Law Courses

Upcoming or recent courses offered at Berkeley Law that are of particular interest to students interested in health security appear below:

2009-2010 Academic Year

Fall ’09

Administrative Law – 223, Bamberger 
Topical Issues in Health Law: A Survey of the Field and its Most Relevant Issues – 225.8, Higgins and Pimstone
Women’s Health and the Law – 221, Dunn

Spring ’10

Advanced IP: Innovation & Regulatory Policy for Pharmaceuticals – Patents and the FDA – 276.67, Syed
Insurance Law and Coverage Litigation – 254.5, Instructor to be announced 
Legislation – 225, Leib
Local Government Law – 226.1T, Strauss
Local Government in Action: Aiding SF’s Working Poor by Affirmative Litigation – 226.3, Clements and Bernstein
Medical-Legal Partnership and Practicum – 283.6 and 283.7, Rodgers and Lewis

Berkeley Law Clinicals

The following clinical and practicum opportunities are offered at Berkeley Law and may be of particular interest to students interested in health security.

East Bay Community Law Center (Specifically in the Medical-Legal Partnership unit)

Other UC Berkeley Courses

These courses (or ones quite similar) focusing on issues related to health, health law, and health policy are offered regularly on the UC Berkeley campus. The ones listed below are being offered in the 2009-2010 Academic Year.  Berkeley Law students may count towards their JD degree up to 8 credits of work completed in classes outside the School of Law. The rules for taking such courses are available online on the School of Law website Registrar’s page. For more information and to understand these regulations better, please contact the Registrar’s office:

Boalt School of Law Office of the Registrar, 270 Simon Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-7200. phone(510) 642-2278, fax (510) 642-2277. Email: registrar@law.berkeley.edu

For a full listing of J.D. program rules and requirements click here.

It is the responsibility of the individual student to be informed about such regulations before deciding on coursework.

UC Berkeley School of Public Health Courses

Advanced Health Care Organizations and Management – 224C, Bloom
Advanced Health Politics – 230, Keller
Analytic Methods for Health Policy and Management – 231A, Brown
Cases in Health Management – 223B, Rundall
Family Planning, Population Change, and Health – 213A, Prata
Foundations of Health Policy and Management – 223D, Oxendine
Health Care Finance – 227A, Robinson
Health Care Organizations and Management – 224A, Zazzali
Health Care Technology Policy – PUB222A, Robinson
Health Economics and Public Policy – 126, Scheffler
Health Policy Decision-Making – 220, Keller
Health Workforce and Public Policy – 220F, Scheffler
Introduction to the Health Care System – 223A, Raube
Legal Basis for Health Care Delivery – 225, Lipton
Microeconomics of Health Care Policy – 226D, Dow
Science and Policy for Environment and Health – 271E, Kyle
Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services – 223C, Shortell
Structural Inequalities and Reproductive Health – 255E, Krishnan
Understanding and Overcoming Health Care Disparities – 221B, Snowden

Goldman School of Public Policy Courses

Leadership, Management and Social Change/Leadership Strategy – 260, Reich

UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Courses

Health Policy–A Social Welfare Perspective – 238C, Lynch
Introduction to Social Welfare Policy – 220, Gilbert
Policy Practice  —  Social Welfare – 254, Berrick
Social Welfare Policy – 112, Terrell

Haas School of Business Courses

Healthcare Speaker Series – 294-15, Raube
Healthcare Marketing – 296-2, Upshaw 
Healthcare in the 21st Century – 297A-1, Raube
Innovations in Health Care – 296-1, Raube
Social Entrepreneurship – 292N-2, Wei-Skillern

Hastings College of the Law

Students may petition to receive credit for work at other accredited law schools by demonstrating good cause for the request.

For more information on the Law and Health Sciences concentration, click here.