This page lists all currently offered McKinney courses & their official course descriptions in alphabetical order.
All Courses
Hamilton County Prosecution Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - As a summer extern, you will have the opportunity to assist in the review, preparation, and (if appropriate) trial of criminal cases alongside our Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys. In most situations, you would be paired with an attorney who manages a certain caseload. Courtroom experience will be available and encouraged for certified interns. Skills involved include research, creative thinking, oral argument, and case organization and preparation. Commonly known as the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecuting Attorney and his deputies represent the State of Indiana in criminal, juvenile, and Title IV-D causes heard in the Hamilton Circuit, Superior, and City Courts. Externships are unpaid.
Health and Human Rights (2 cr.) D/N 916 - Elective - Health is a fundamental human right, and a necessary foundation for the exercise of almost every other human right. Yet the parameters of the right to health are still being defined, and enforcing a right to health is an elusive goal for billions of people across the globe, including many people in our own communities. This course aims to help students understand the evolving nature of a right to health, along with the many challenges posed by efforts to make that right a practical reality. This course may also be taught as a seminar. Students may use the course's final paper as an opportunity to satisfy the Advanced Research and Writing Requirement.
Health Care Business and Revenue Systems (2 cr.) D/N 700 - Elective - The healthcare industry is experiencing unprecedented growth and change. Hospitals have been at the forefront of this change dealing with a demanding regulatory environment which impacts everything from patient care to reimbursement. Understanding the competing interests of healthcare providers, government organizations, and health insurance companies is vital for individuals wishing to work in the healthcare industry. This course will examine a typical hospital’s revenue cycle and identify both legal and business issues faced by legal professionals working in this field.
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Regulation (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 600 - Elective - This course examines legal issues relevant to healthcare providers that involve health care fraud and abuse regulation. Health care fraud is an intentional attempt to collect money for medical services wrongly and abuse pertains to actions which are inconsistent with acceptable business and medical practices. The course will focus on fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the four major statutes containing federal fraud and abuse prohibitions. Specific statutes studied include the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark law and regulations, the False Claims Act and the Civil Monetary Penalty Act.
Health Care Quality and Safety (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 791 - Elective - This is an advanced health law course that explores the legal issues that arise between and among patients, health care providers and regulators with regard to the quality and safety of health care. Quality is one of the major themes in the study of health care law and policy, in particular as it is frequently in tension with cost and access considerations. This course focuses on both private and public law responses to quality and safety issues, examines the impact of common law liability models on changing provider behavior, federal and state regulatory agencies and their quality and safety research, and process and technology- driven reforms. While not a prerequisite, it is assumed that most students will have taken the health law survey course, Introduction to Health Care Law and Policy.
Health Information Technology and Privacy (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 679 - Elective - explores the legal issues that arise between and among patients, health care providers and regulators with regard to the use of various information technologies (including telemedicine, electronic medical records decision support systems, personal health records and wellness or diagnostic applications running on smartphones). Implementation of these technologies frequently is in response to health law or policy initiatives. In such cases the existence or interpretation of legal structures can provide incentives or disincentives to implementation or efficient use of technologies. Equally health information technologies that are not the products of formal initiatives can challenge or disrupt existing legal relationships or standards. Two of the areas most implicated are privacy and security. As a result approximately one-third of the course will deal specifically with this topic, examining state common law and statutory provisions in addition to the federal HIPAA rules and Breach Notification regulation. P: While not a prerequisite it is assumed that most students will have taken the health law survey course (Introduction to Health Care Law & Policy) and one or more advanced health law courses.
Higher Education Law (2 cr.) D/N 678 - Elective - Designed to build on a law student's substantive knowledge about legal issues facing institutions of higher education, this course focusses on university governance, the student/institution relationship, and the legal dynamics among and between institutions of higher education and their respective host communities. This course requires substantial reading and analysis of both the course text and court decisions. Through classroom discussions, collaborative exercises, and occasional assignments (on-line and in the classroom), a student in this class will gain a better understanding of how the law shapes our nation's institutions of higher education.
Homelessness Law & Policy (2 cr.) D/N 700 - Elective - This seminar examines the growth of modern homelessness with a focus on legal and policy interventions that have been implemented across the U.S.. Students will become familiar with the constitutional rights of the unhoused as determined by the Supreme Court. We will study the prevalence of tent encampments across the U.S., the availability of homeless shelters, as well as the effectiveness of the “Housing first model,” which connects unhoused individuals to housing without preconditions. Readings will include court cases, statutes, media articles, and research reports, supplemented by video documentaries. A variety of guest speakers will further add to our discussions.
Horizon League Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - Students will provide legal and NCAA compliance assistance to the Horizon League, a Division I athletics conference. This placement offers students the chance to gain diverse experience in intercollegiate athletics at the conference level that will help build a knowledge base for a career in the college sports industry.
Housing Discrimination and Segregation (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 743 - Elective - covers legal and other aspects of discrimination and segregation in all sectors of the housing industry (sales, rentals, financing, zoning, land use, and insurance). The course includes the study of public and private housing, with reference to federal and state constitutional and statutory law.
Housing, Development and the Law (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 760 - Elective - This course will study housing problems in the United States and government programs that purport to address them. Participants will consider a variety of issues, including affordability; physical conditions (including overcrowding); racial, ethnic, and economic segregation; insecurity of tenure (including foreclosure and other forms of displacement); and homelessness. The history and nature of federal, state, and local government interventions will be reviewed and assessed. The discussions will involve both housing policy and issues raised in courses in administrative law, constitutional law, legislative interpretation, and federal courts, though none of these is a prerequisite to this course. Some foreign and international legal standards, programs, and cases will be presented as well.
Housing, Health, and Human Rights Clinic (3 cr.) D/N 808 - Clinic Course - Students in the Housing, Health, and Human Rights Clinic engage in domestic human rights advocacy and litigation, usually concerning the key social determinant of health that is access to safe, secure housing. Students engage in advocacy in the form of litigation, negotiation, investigations and reports, and public education. Students must be available to attend during the semester at least five (6) sessions of eviction hearings in local courts (dates and times to be set before each semester) and be available for a Saturday five-hour training session the first weekend of the semester. Students must submit an application to be considered for this clinic.
