Perhaps best known as a world leader in organ transplantation, the medical center is recognized for innovative hospital management and patient-care techniques, and for specialties including cancer research, diagnostic artificial intelligence, reproductive physiology, pain control, cardiovascular research, AIDS, and geriatrics, and many more. The city of Pittsburgh is host to a large number of law firms and attorneys who specialize in or have departments in health law. Students meet and network with many of these attorneys, as well as health care practitioners, lawmakers, and representatives of consumer groups, through the innovative Current Issues in Health Law course. This course is taught by health-law practitioners and helps integrate the academic and practice aspects of the program, and allows students to examine the larger issues and ramifications of the relationship between health care and law. Any Legal Career Students who earn Pitt Law School's Health Law Certificate will not only forge a solid foundation in health law, they build skills that are valuable in any area of legal practice.
Students also have the opportunity to participate in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition.
Competing against 26 teams around the country, Pitt Law School's 1998 Health Law Moot Court team captured first place honors and was also awarded best brief honors. All Rights Reserved.