Public Health Law & Policy

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Elective Course Course Requirement: paper Fulfills Current Concentration Elective: Business Law- Health Care Law Track, Government and Public Interest- Basic Government Track, Government and Public Interest- Health Law Track, Government and Public Interest- Mission and Moral Life Track This course explores the inherent tensions between the responsibility of governments (principally state and federal, but also stretching from the municipal to the international, intergovernmental levels) to promote and protect the health of the public while also ensuring the legal rights and interests of individuals. Public health law and policy thus provides a high stakes setting for examining how collective and individual rights are balanced both in theory and in practical legal terms.