Prerequisite: Health Care Organization and Finance Law

Credits

Offered

The course will familiarize students with the federal and state laws and regulations designed to combat fraud and abuse in the delivery of health care.

The course will examine the history, enforcement and interpretation of the civil False Claims Act. The federal anti-kickback statute, the federal Anti-Self Referral law (“Stark II”), the Civil Money Penalties Law, HIPAA, and various state laws and regulations aimed at preventing fraud and abuse in the health care industry. The course will also explore the powers and jurisdiction of the various federal and state enforcers of these laws, and industry responses for the enforcement efforts.

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Recommended: Wills and Trusts, Administrative Law, Environmental Law

Credits

Offered

This course will introduce students to those principles, rules, and regulations, as developed by common and statutory law, that affect animals and people. Questions of property, torts, wills and trusts, contracts, administrative and constitutional law will be explored as these areas relate to animals. Additionally the course will cover protections under criminal and civil statutes; cruelty and abuse laws; legal standing for animals; treatment of laboratory animals; ownership and valuation issues; custody areas, and ethical and legal dilemmas posed by the capture, confinement, and commercial use of animals

Credits

Offered

This course is designed to familiarize students with the relationship between international human rights law and mental disability law. We will focus on comparative mental disability law in civil and common law systems using the U.S. experience as a point of reference. We will examine the applicability of international and regional human rights conventions, treaties, and agreements to issues of concern to people with mental disabilities. The course will also provide the opportunity to explore specific human rights issues such as suppressing political dissent through institutional psychiatry. Throughout the course, we will address the impact of stereotypes and myths about persons with mental disabilities on public policy-making.

Recommended: Federal Indian Law, Family Law

Credits

Offered

This course will present an in-depth analysis of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, starting with an overview of its historical context and the policies behind the Act’s unique federal mandates to states courts that are dealing with Indian children in foster and adoptive care.

The specific provisions regarding jurisdiction, rights of the tribes, burdens of proof, and placement preferences will be covered in depth, as well as the emerging case law from state courts. Students will be graded on class participation and a research paper.

Prerequisite: Federal Indian Law
Recommended: Property, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure

Credits

Offered

This course will examine the laws of the:

• Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• Spokane Tribe
• Confederated Bands of Yakama
• Umatilla Confederated Tribes
• Coeur d’Alene Tribe
• Nez Perce Tribe
• Kalispell Tribe
• Bonners Ferry Kootenai

The course will examine each tribe’s laws concerning:

• Tribal sovereignty
• Tribal criminal practice and procedure
• Non-adversarial dispute-resolution procedures
• Tribal court jurisdiction and the relationship between the tribe and state and county governments (for example, as regards the Indian Child Welfare Act and law enforcement)

Additionally, legal concerns that are relatively unique or idiosyncratic to particular tribes will be explored, such as zoning and water rights issues for specific tribes. Tribal attorneys and/or tribal general counsel will make presentations on the law of their tribes.

This is a paper course.

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Prerequisite: Criminal Law
Recommended: Criminal Procedure, Administrative Law

Credits

Offered

An overview of the administrative and constitutional law governing prisons and correctional institutions in the United States, including prison discipline, constitutional rights of inmates, parole and probation, and sentencing.

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