U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKS PITT'S HEALTH LAW PROGRAM
PITTSBURGH, April 6 -- The University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Health Law Program ranked 13th in the latest U.S. News & World Report survey, ahead of George Washington and Vanderbilt Universities.
According to the program's director, Professor Alan Meisel, this is the first time Pitt's program has entered the rankings. "This is a spectacular achievement considering that the Health Law Certificate Program is only four years old."
Pitt's Health Law Program is a combination of classroom and clinical components that introduces students to complex business and legal transactions, bioethics and patient care, and legal issues that arise in operating a health care institution.
Taught by law school faculty and legal practitioners of health law, courses relate theory to practice in areas including antitrust, fraud and abuse, business transactions, disabilities law, and nonprofit organizations.
Pitt's concentration in Health Law is the first of the Law School's formal certificate programs. This fall it will be joined by similar programs in Civil Litigation, Environmental Law, and International Law.
U.S. News specialty rankings are based on reputation and are determined by faculty members who teach in the field.
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