Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Valerie Koch (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Health Law
Intellectual Property and Information Law
Time: 2:30p-4:00p TTH Location: 210
Course Outline: This three credit course surveys the use of genetic information across several areas of law, including property law and IP, family law, criminal law, public health law, privacy law, and antidiscrimination law. Students enrolled in the class will produce three brief response papers of one to two pages in length and complete a take-home exam.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: Take home Take home
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Maxwell J. Mehlman et al., Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (5th ed. 2020)
