While law schools are well recognized and respected as institutions of intellectual debate and scholarship, they nonetheless have been criticized for failing to prepare graduates for the actual practice of law. Health law is not immune from this criticism, particularly because as the health law field has grown law schools may find it difficult to fully expose students to the full depth and breadth of this area of law. In response to faculty desires to ensure that our curriculum fully prepare students for contemporary legal practice in health law, the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law undertook its first large-scale, systematic curriculum review. In this column, we share our approach to this review and offer advice to other health law programs and schools seeking to better prepare graduates for the practice of health law.
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