Blending legal knowledge with skills development
The recent Carnegie Foundation Report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, called on law schools to advance legal education through the integration of legal knowledge, practical skills, and development of professional identity, values, and ethics. Through our externships and lawyering skills courses, the law school provides our students with many opportunities to engage in this dynamic and integrated learning process.
In addition to our health law externships, the following courses blend health law and skills development.
Health Legislation and Advocacy
This year-long course examines the process by which proposed legislation on health-related issues becomes enacted into law in Georgia. Students work with not-for-profit community partners to analyze and draft proposed health-related legislation and track its progress through the annual session of the Georgia General Assembly.
This live-client clinic located at the law school addresses the needs of low-income children and their families who are obtaining health services through Children's-operated hospitals and who are referred to HeLP for legal assistance. The clinic exposes students to substantive legal areas related to children, families, poverty, and social welfare, and it offers students the opportunity to develop practical lawyering skills, such as client interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and case management.
The College of Law’s Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth offers law students and graduate students in public health the opportunity to participate in an international program, entitled “Environmental Health Law and Policy,” during the summer term in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.