2.5-Term Pathway - Pre-Master's for Business, Law and Social Sciences - Continue to Master of Laws - Health Law and Ethics

If students hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, but don’t meet the entry requirements for a master’s, a Pre-Master’s can help them gain a place on a postgraduate degree.

This course addresses the growing interest in the interface of medicine, law and ethics. With the increasing pressure on resource allocation within the National Health Service and current debates on an individual’s capacity to consent or refuse medical treatment, there is growing need for qualified legal professionals with an understanding of health law.

This course examines general principles such as consent to treatment and medical ethics, together with more specialist areas of Health Law including the law relating to:

• organ transplants
  
• reproduction and the law
• mental health law
• medicines and pharmacy law
• employment and health