Master of Health Law

The University of Sydney

The Master of Health Law (MHL) is a flexible, specialist qualification covering wide-ranging legal and ethical issues in healthcare. You will learn to identify, analyse and develop solutions to complex legal, ethical and policy issues affecting health and health services.Our students come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. They include practising lawyers, health professionals, health administrators, government officers, health advocates and others seeking a deeper understanding of legal and regulatory issues arising within the health sector.The Master of Health Law is a postgraduate coursework degree focusing on a wide range of legal and ethical issues in healthcare and in the governance of health. The core and elective units of study cover a wide range of areas, including healthcare law, the impact of new technologies on healthcare, the regulation of the health professions, litigation and dispute resolution, public health law, mental health law, global health law and governance, and a range of more specialist fields. Students learn to identify, analyse and develop solutions to complex legal, ethical and policy issues affecting health and health services. MHL candidates come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must take a core unit prior to or at the same time as completing other units

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