法学硕士生物技术和基因组学

学生将详细了解围绕基因应用的法律问题，例如：克隆，法医证据，基因测试，基因治疗，转基因生物以及干细胞和行为遗传学。学生还将研究使生物技术和基因组学发展，控制和应用受到限制的法律。Sandra Day O'Connor法学院的法律，科学与创新中心提供生物技术和基因组法学硕士学位，这是美国历史最悠久，规模最大，最全面的研究中心，致力于法律与科学的交汇。通过课堂教学和指导性的独立研究，法学硕士研究生将研究与遗传应用相关的法律问题，例如：克隆，法医证据，基因测试，基因治疗，转基因生物，干细胞和行为遗传学
Today's lawyers must be prepared to handle challenges like those that surround international trade, evidentiary standards, personalized medicine, licensing and business planning, to name a few.<br><br>The LLM degree program in biotechnology and genomics is associated with the Center for Law, Science and Innovation, the nation's largest and oldest multidisciplinary research center focusing on the legal implications of new scientific discoveries and emerging technologies. The faculty has a long history of high-quality teaching, and a vast number hold postgraduate degrees in a wide array of sciences.<br><br>The program is designed to be completed in nine months on a full-time basis but also may be pursued on a part-time basis. A degree candidate must complete 24 credit hours of coursework to obtain the Master of Laws degree in biotechnology and genomics. A candidate may elect to write a graduate thesis for either three or six credit hours or can elect not to write a thesis and fulfill the equivalent credits with other coursework. Two required courses are: genetics and the law, and biotechnology: science, law and policy.<br><br>The LLM can be completed as a one-year (two semesters) full-time program, or it may be spread over two years or more, part-time.