LLM PrograMHeaLtH PoLicy and Law SPeciaLization

exPerience tHe difference

tHe LLM HeaLtH PoLicy

and Law SPeciaLizationprovides both seasoned health law

practitioners and lawyers aiming

to transition into the field with

an opportunity to round out their

professional qualifications and

boost their marketability.

At Northeastern University School of Law, we believe there’s no better way to learn the law than through practice. As the nation’s leader in experiential legal education, we offer an LLM program that provides unrivaled opportunities for hands-on practice as part of the academic curriculum.

Northeastern’s unique approach to training lawyers features outstanding classroom teaching, simulation courses based on real-world legal issues, clinical programs working with real clients and legal placements (called “co-ops”) with law firms, clinics, courts, corporations and governmental and non-governmental organizations in the United States and around the world. The Northeastern LLM program offers maximum flexibility. The dynamic curriculum, which draws from the best elements of our more than 40 years of creating experience-based legal education programs, is specifically designed to give LLM students the foundational knowledge and skills to become effective global lawyers.

The Health Policy and Law specialization is designed to meet the needs of lawyers working in the area of health policy and law who are looking to enhance their practical skills and substantive knowledge as well as lawyers aiming to enter the field. With the implementation of the US Affordable Care Act, the proliferation of global health challenges and increasingly complex issues of bioethics, this is a dynamic and ever-expanding field of legal practice.

In addition to enrolling in the School of Law’s wide range of health law-related courses, LLM students may benefit from the university’s interdisciplinary expertise by taking relevant courses in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. LLM candidates are also encouraged to participate in events and activities sponsored by Northeastern’s Program on Health Policy and Law.

NortheasterN UNiversity school of law experieNce the DiffereNce

At Northeastern, our approach to learning will set you free to match your skills and talents with the career that’s right for you.

Learn it. Live it.

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As an LLM student, you’ll learn complicated legal concepts, tackle real legal problems and develop expertise in Health Policy and Law. Only at Northeastern will you find a core of foundation courses with a diverse range of health-related electives combined with an invaluable legal practice experience designed to support your future career goals.

The LLM specialization in health policy and law helps you prepare for a career in a wide variety of professional settings, including health care providers and insurers, government regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, law firms litigating medical malpractice, pharmaceutical products liability and toxic tort cases, and NGOs and community-based organizations in the United States and abroad.

A rigorous curriculum, exceptional professors and unmatched experiential learning opportunities fuel Northeastern’s one-of-a-kind academic enterprise.

n Hands-On Experience (co-op) All qualified students are given the unrivaled opportunity to complete an 11-week legal practice experience modeled on our signature Cooperative Legal Education Program as a required part of their LLM study. Placement opportunities may include law firms, clinics, courts, government agencies, community organizations or advocacy groups. Under the guidance of the LLM director, a faculty advisor and a professional development counselor, you’ll explore your personal and professional areas of interest and find an experience that meets your unique professional goals.

n Independent Research and Writing All LLM students are required to complete a rigorous writing project under the direction of a Northeastern law faculty member. You pick the topic. We’ll provide the guidance.

Build a legal foundation. Establish your career path.

The Northeastern LLM curriculum combines three critical pieces that will put you on a path to where you want to go:

n Courses that Challenge*

l Bioethics and the Law

lBiopropertylCurrent Topics in

Health LawlDisability LawlDrug Law

and PolicylElder LawlEnvironmental Law

lGlobal AIDS Policy Seminar

lHealth Care Fraud and Abuse Law

lHuman Rights Seminar: Race, Gender and Culture

lInterdisciplinary Approaches to Policy and Advocacy

lInternational Health Law

lProblems in Public Health Law

lQuantitative Methods

lReproductive and Sexual Health and Rights

lSocial Welfare Law

* subject to change

At Northeastern University School of Law, we approach legal education from a global perspective. Our faculty teach, conduct research and advocate on a wide range of global health law issues, including human rights, health governance, bioethics, health care delivery, HIV/AIDS treatment, criminal justice policy, tobacco, obesity, the implications of health care quality reporting, discrimination and more.

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PrograM on HeaLtH PoLicy and Law

The Program on Health Policy and Law brings together faculty and students from across Northeastern University, providing a forum for interdisciplinary exploration and research of the myriad ways that law and policy affect health in the US and globally.

Based at the School of Law, the program draws from participating departments across the university to provide a rich context for students and researchers interested in public health law, health and human rights, health governance, intellectual property, bioethics, health care delivery law, and the regulation of health care systems. It is guided by faculty and staff with diverse areas of expertise and is affiliated with an array of university-wide institutes, programs and experiential learning opportunities.

In addition to offering a broad curriculum in health and public health law, the program sponsors lectures, a colloquium series, the law school’s Health Law Moot Court team, the Health Law Student Association and workshops that introduce students to career opportunities in the health law field.

PubLic HeaLtH advocacy inStitute

The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) is an internationally recognized legal research center focused on public health law. PHAI’s goal is to support and enhance a commitment to public health in individuals and institutes who shape public policy through law. PHAI is committed to research in public health law and public health policy development, to legal technical assistance and to collaborative work at the intersection of law and public health.

PHAI’s Law and Obesity Project explores the use of the law in slowing obesity and reversing the epidemic of obesity-related diseases. The project examines the use of litigation, legislation, regulation and other legal tools in conjunction with public health practitioners and policymakers. PHAI publishes widely in the area, works with policymakers and advocates and hosts the annual Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic conference.

The mission of PHAI’s Tobacco Control Resource Center (TCRC) is to improve people’s health by honing legal strategies to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. TCRC’s Tobacco Products Liability Project has held more than two dozen annual conferences, at which many of the global strategies for holding the tobacco industry legally accountable were first devised. TCRC provides law and policy analysis and technical assistance to domestic and foreign governmental bodies, non-governmental organizations, attorneys involved in tobacco-related litigation and tobacco control advocates.

reSearcH and facuLtyreSourceS

AzIzA AHMEDAssIstAnt PROfEssOR Of LAW

Emory UnivErsity, BA 2000

HArvArd UnivErsity, ms 2003

UnivErsity of CAliforniA, BErkElEy, Jd 2007

Professor Ahmed teaches reproductive and sexual health and rights, international health law, and property.

Her research areas include health and law (international and domestic), human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Among her degrees, Professor Ahmed holds a master’s of science in population and international health from the Harvard school of Public Health. Professor Ahmed has worked on human rights and social justice issues in south Africa, namibia, the Caribbean, india and the United states. she recently served as a member of the technical Advisory Group on Hiv and the law convened by the United nations development Programme (UndP).

BrOOk BAkErPROfEssOR Of LAW

HArvArd UnivErsity, AB 1969

nortHEAstErn UnivErsity, Jd 1976

Professor Baker is a leading expert on policies affecting access to affordable medicines in low- and middle-

income countries. He is a policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project) and is actively engaged in international campaigns for universal access to treatment, prevention and care for people living with Hiv/Aids. He has written and consulted extensively in Africa and Asia and with multilateral organizations on intellectual property rights and enforcement, trade agreements,

global health funding, health and community system strengthening and access to medicines. Professor Baker has also taught and consulted in south African law schools and law clinics since 1997 on issues of legal skills, multiculturalism, human rights and more recently, Hiv/Aids. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of kwaZulu natal in durban, south Africa. At the law school, he teaches a global Aids policy course, disability law and negotiation.

LEO BELEtSkyAssIstAnt PROfEssOR Of LAW And HEALtH sCIEnCEs

vAssAr CollEGE, AB 2000

Brown UnivErsity, mPH 2004

tEmPlE UnivErsity, Jd 2008

Professor Beletsky holds a joint appointment with the school of law and Bouvé College of Health sciences. His scholarly

interest centers on the role of law as a structural determinant of health, and the use of policy interventions to improve population health in a variety of domains, including drug policy, prevention of Hiv and other infectious diseases, health and human rights, criminal justice policy and evidence-based health care. Prior to joining the northeastern community, Professor Beletsky was an assistant professor with the division of Global Public Health at the University of California, san diego school of medicine. His credentials include a master’s in public health from Brown University and post-doctoral training at the yale University Center for interdisciplinary research on Aids.

rIcHArD DAyNArDUnIvERsIty dIstIngUIsHEd PROfEssOR Of LAW

ColUmBiA UnivErsity, AB 1964, mA 1970

HArvArd UnivErsity, Jd 1967

mAssACHUsEtts institUtE of tECHnoloGy, PHd 1980

Professor daynard is at the forefront of the international movement to establish the legal responsibility of the

tobacco industry for tobacco-induced death, disease and disability. He is president of the law school’s Public Health Advocacy institute and chair of its tobacco Products liability Project. He is also an international leader in combating the obesity epidemic. Professor daynard teaches in the areas of public health law, strategic litigation and interdisciplinary studies. Professor daynard has lectured about legal issues in the control of tobacco and obesity in 50 countries and has chaired 25 national and international conferences on these subjects.

krIStIN MADISONPROfEssOR Of LAW And HEALtH sCIEnCEs

UnivErsity of CAliforniA, BErkElEy, BA 1992

yAlE UnivErsity, Jd 2000

stAnford UnivErsity, PHd 2001

Professor madison holds a joint appointment in the school of law and the Bouvé College of Health sciences.

Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of health law, health policy and health economics. trained as an economist, Professor madison has used medicare data to analyze the relationship between health care provider affiliations (such as multihospital systems and physician-hospital organizations) and patient treatment. she has also published numerous articles evaluating the implications of health care quality reporting and related trends for patients, providers and regulators.

Her most recent work examines the law, policy and ethics of employers’ use of financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviors.

WENDy PArMEtAssOCIAtE dEAn fOR ACAdEmIC AffAIRs And gEORgE J. And KAtHLEEn WAtERs mAttHEWs dIstIngUIsHEd UnIvERsIty PROfEssOR Of LAW

CornEll UnivErsity, Bs 1979

HArvArd UnivErsity, Jd 1982

Associate dean Parmet, a leading expert on health, disability and public health law, directs the law school’s Jd/

mPH program with tufts University school of medicine as well as the Program on Health Policy and law. Professor Parmet is co-author of Ethical Health Care (Prentice Hall, 2005) and author of Populations, Public Health, and the Law (Georgetown University Press, 2009). Professor Parmet is a past president and a current member of the board of directors of Health law Advocates. she is also on the board of directors of Health Care for All, a former secretary of the Public Health law Association and a past member of the American Bar Association’s Aids Coordinating Committee. she previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the ABA’s Commission on mental and Physical disability law. in 1998, Professor Parmet acted as co-counsel in Bragdon v. Abbott, the first AIDS/HIV case to come before the Us supreme Court under the Americans with disabilities Act. Professor Parmet’s client, sidney Abbott, had been refused treatment by her dentist when she revealed her Hiv-positive status, although she was asymptomatic. the high court said that because she was infected with Hiv, she was entitled to the protections of the Americans with disabilities Act.

core HeaLtH Law facuLty

Boston – A Beautiful City and a sophisticated Legal market

Northeastern University is located in one of America’s most beautiful, exciting and truly livable cities. Within walking distance of the law school, you can take in the galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, a Boston Pops concert at renowned Symphony Hall or a Red Sox baseball game at historic Fenway Park. Or, if you want to soak up local and international culture, hop on the T (Boston’s subway) right outside of the law school’s doors for a short ride to the Italian North End or Chinatown for authentic regional cuisines. Or go shopping at Faneuil Hall or relax in Boston’s famed Public Garden. What’s more, because the city is filled with hundreds of thousands of students, there are tons of opportunities to get student discounts at great museums, theaters, concerts and events.

Boston is also one of the most sophisticated legal markets in the United States. A center for health care, Boston is home to some of the oldest and most prestigious teaching hospitals in the country. If you want to delve into health policy and law, you couldn’t be better located than at Northeastern University.

Location

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Northeastern University School of Law is a small, close-knit community of legal scholars and practitioners housed inside one of the most dynamic private universities in the United States.

We cultivate a collegial and supportive atmosphere that begins in the classroom and extends throughout campus. Students regard one another as peers rather than rivals — teaming up for projects and study sessions, collaborating as members of student groups and forging professional and personal bonds that endure long after graduation.

LLM students are invited and encouraged to participate in the law school’s more than 25 student organizations and to take advantage of amenities such as the Marino Center to help keep physically fit and mentally alert.

When you’re not studying in the stacks of the law library or taking full advantage of all the campus has to offer, Boston is your professional arena and personal land of adventure.

coMMunity

The Northeastern LLM program admits students who already hold a first degree in law. For international applicants, the requirement may be fulfilled by an LLB or its equivalent from an accredited or comparably recognized law school outside the United States. For domestic applicants, a JD is required.

The School of Law accepts LLM applications through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) at www.lsac.org or directly by contacting staff at www.northeastern.edu/law/llm.

aPPLication cHeck LiSt

n northeastern University school of Law Application (available at www.lsac.org)

n $75 Application fee

n Résumé or Curriculum vitae (Cv)

n Personal statement

n Current LsAC LLm Credential Assembly service (LLm CAs) report, including two letters of recommendation and official transcripts, and (if applicable) score reports for the Internet- based test of English as a foreign Language (tOEfL iBt®) or the International English Language testing system (IELts)

Details about the application process can be found at www.northeastern.edu/law/llm.

adMiSSion aPPLicationS are due May 1.

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HiStory

Located: Boston, Massachusetts

Founded: 1898

Law Student ProfiLe 2012-2013

Total number of LLM students: 11

Women 55%Men 45% People of Color 36%

Total number of JD students: 604

Women 60% Men 40% People of Color 35%

facuLty

Full-time total: 44

Women 52%Men 48%Faculty of Color 21%

inStituteS and SPeciaL PrograMS

• CivilRightsandRestorativeJustice

• DomesticViolenceInstitute

• ProgramonHumanRights and the Global Economy

• PublicHealthAdvocacyInstitute

• ProgramonHealthPolicyandLaw

duaL-degree PrograMS

• SustainableInternationalDevelopment (MA,BrandeisUniversity)

• EnvironmentalLaw (MELP,VermontLawSchool)

• PublicHealth (MPH,TuftsUniversitySchoolofMedicine)

• BusinessAdministration(MBA)

• Accounting(MS/MBA)

• LawandPublicPolicy(MAandPhD)

at a gLance

LLM and International Programs 400 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Phone: 617.373.8546 Fax: 617.373.5056 LLMinfo@neu.edu www.northeastern.edu/law/llm