Health Law

Courses

Administrative Law
Antitrust
Bioethics and the Law
Corporations
Disability Law
Food & Drug Law
Health Care Legislation
Health Policy Law
Insurance Law
Law & Aging
Medical Malpractice Law
Mental Health Law
Public Health Law
Regulation of Health Care Professionals
Torts

Faculty

Eugene W. Basanta, Southern Illinois Healthcare Professor of Law

Marshall B. Kapp, Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law & Medicine

Cheryl Anderson, Associate Professor of Law

Marsha Ryan, Adjunct Professor

Jeff Plesko, Adjunct Professor

Special Programs/Organizations

The Journal of Legal Medicine

SIU students who become staff members and editors of Southern Illinois University Law Journal have the opportunity to write commentary for the Journal of Legal Medicine, a publication of the American College of Legal Medicine. This unique opportunity allows students who have special interests in law and medicine to pursue those interests through scholarly research and publication.

National Health Law Moot Court Competition

Each year the SIU School of Law hosts this inter-law school appellate moot court competition. The purpose of the Competition is to develop the art of appellate advocacy and to encourage research in the growing field of health law and ethics. Third year SIU School of Law students have the opportunity to participate in the event at the election of the student-run moot court board. The Competition awards scholarship grants of up to $1,000 for winning teams.

J.D./M.D Concurrent Degree Program

Recognizing the heightened level of interaction between the professions of law and medicine in today’s society, Southern Illinois University Schools of Medicine and Law offer an J.D./M.D. concurrent degree program to accommodate the increasing number of individuals seeking a carefully structured interdisciplinary education. The concurrent degree program is designed to lead to the concurrent award of degrees in law and medicine at the completion of a unique six-year program involving academic and clinical study.

Law and Medicine Society

The Law and Medicine Society is a student organization which promotes the study of the interaction of law and medicine.