卫生法的前沿
由于提供的课程反映了当地医疗机构的实力，波士顿大学法学院的卫生法专业闪耀着光芒。
“Boston is a great health care city,” notes Professor 凯文Outterson, co-director of BU Law’s 卫生法课程. “这里集中了一流的医院、优秀的新濠影汇线上赌场研究和教育机构以及许多生物技术公司，使其成为全球卫生新濠影汇线上赌场研究和政策中心。” 更不用说马萨诸塞州州长米特·罗姆尼（Mitt Romney） 2006年通过的全民医疗保健计划，它是奥巴马总统《平价医疗法案》（Affordable care Act）的样板。
波士顿大学法学院’s health law curriculum benefits from the School’s location, offering students a choice from 16 courses and an impressive number of 校外实习的机会. The program offers a wide range of interdisciplinary courses and seminars, taught by some of the most respected scholars and local practitioners in the fields of law, public health, and management, as well as a number of 双学位选择, such as the accelerated JD/MD, the JD/MBA in Law & Health Sector Management, and the JD/MPH in Law & Public Health.
This impressive range of options means the program already meets the 卫生法课程指南 recently introduced by the 美国健康律师协会, which Professor Outterson played a key role in developing.
The curriculum has boasted a strong course on 医疗保健欺诈和滥用 for the past six years, taught by Mr. Robert M. Thomas, one of the leading , tam fraud and abuse attorneys in the country. 托马斯被招募来教授一个实践研讨会，在这个研讨会上，学生们通过现实生活中的欺诈和滥用场景，探索卫生保健公司内的检察官、辩护律师、举报人和合规官员如何处理他们的工作并为他们的客户提供建议。 Thomas’s connections to the industry allow students the opportunity to hear guest lectures from a variety of invaluable sources, including successful whistleblower Elin Baklid-Kunz and her attorney, Marlan Wilbanks,最近和哈利法克斯医院就《虚假申报法》的指控达成和解.
The 医疗保健交易 class, also developed six years ago, brings students through six real transactions and asks them to renegotiate the deals and reverse engineer the transactional process. 在这个过程的最后，学生们向实际谈判交易的律师展示他们的发现，并从他们那里得到反馈。 奥特森教授开创了这门课程，在实践中使用前合伙人和同事的交易。 该课程现在由Ropes & Gray和Verrill Dana的高级合伙人教授。
This fall, BU Law began offering 医疗保健中的行政规则制定. 该课程旨在提供医疗保健监管实践的直接经验。 学生们选择一项目前正在公开征求意见的医疗法规——来自FDA或平价医疗法案——并分析该法规，选择立场，并向新濠影汇赌场政府提交意见信。 “学生们在我的指导下从事法律工作，”奥特森说。 “他们实际接触到行政法的现实。 As far as I know, we’re the only health law program that offers that kind of experience.”
Zachary Rothman (‘15) chose to comment on a rule governing the coverage of preventative services following theBurwell诉爱好游说 Stores， Inc. 的决定。 Rothman used corporate and tax law, among other areas, to argue for a narrow reading of the definition of a company eligible to opt out of covering preventative services under the 爱好游说ruling.
“Professor Outterson was a great resource for both the health law and corporate law components of my comment,” Rothman notes in a 最近关于这次经历的博客文章. “他建议我寻找和阅读消息来源，帮助我完善我对该规则不同部分的想法，并指导我撰写评论，这些评论不仅会迫使机构做出回应，而且会让他们有兴趣阅读。”
有这么多的选择，选择可能会令人眼花缭乱。 奥特森建议根据兴趣和职业目标选择卫生法课程。
If a student is interested in biotechnology or life sciences, Outterson might recommend they take 从实验室到病床：将生物医学创新从实验室转化为市场, or 食品、药品和化妆品法. If it’s public health that inspires a student, there are many options with Professors 温迪水手 and 乔治•亚那 in partnership with BU’s School of Public Health, including Public alth Law, Health Law and Human Rights, and Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act. Abigail Moncrieff offers classes that focus on health law jurisprudence, such as 医疗改革和宪法, and Kathryn Zeiler teaches the foundational course in health law, in addition to Economic Analysis of Health Care.
波士顿大学法学院的学生还可以通过卫生法实习项目获得现实世界的经验，这是一个为期一个学期的体验式项目，学生可以在医疗机构工作以获得学分。 学生在实习主任的帮助下确定合适的实习地点； 最近的选择包括波士顿医疗中心、健康法律倡导者、顶点制药、伙伴医疗保健和美国检察官办公室欺诈部门等。
奥特森教授表示：“由于波士顿及其周边地区院校的质量，我们为学生提供了绝佳的选择机会。” “我们能够从这些机构吸引最优秀的从业者来分享他们作为教授的专业知识。”
