The Master of Health Law and Administration (MHLA) graduate degree is for those who have a bachelor’s degree and are interested in pursuing careers in healthcare, but who do not wish to practice law or obtain a law degree.
The Program:
Loyola’s MHLA degree requires completion of 30 semester credit hours. Students must either complete an approved externship or produce 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 MHLA program can be completed in two semesters or spread over up to three years.
**Please note: not all courses are offered every academic year.**
Required Core Courses (18-19 hours total)
LAWM-L705 U.S. Law and Legal Analysis – one-week intensive course before the regular fall semester begins (1 credit)
LAW-L807 Introduction to Health Law (3 hrs)
LAW-L912 Health Law II: Access, Regulation, Compliance and Strategy (3 hrs)
LAW-L800 Health Care Privacy and Security (3 hrs)
LAW-L914 Health Care Compliance (3 hrs)
LAW-L898 Legal Research / Other Course (thesis paper - see above) (2-3 hrs) or LAW-L900 Approved Health-Related Externship (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 (9-12 hours total)
LAW-L746 Business Organizations I (3 hrs)
LAW-L747 Business Organizations II (3 hrs)
LAW-L781 Law and Poverty (2 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-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-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 Nicole Tuchinda, Academic Director for the Health Law Program.