Sydney Law School’s Master of Health Law and Graduate Diploma of Health Law include units of study relating to medical and healthcare law, public health law, mental health law, global health law, health technology law, health privacy law, death law, and more.

Master of Health Law and Graduate Diploma in Health Law

The Master of Health Law (MHL) and Graduate Diploma in Health Law (GradDipHL) are flexible, specialist qualifications covering wide-ranging legal and ethical issues in healthcare. You will learn to identify, analyse and develop solutions to complex legal, ethical and policy issues affecting health and health services.

Our students come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. They include practising lawyers, health professionals, health administrators, government officers, health advocates and others seeking a deeper understanding of legal and regulatory issues arising within the health sector and in health law.

Units of Study

Units of study for 2025 that are open to students enrolled in the Master of Health Law and Graduate Diploma in Health Law include the following:

• Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles Core
• Health Care and Professional Liability Core
• Critical Issues in Public Health Law Core
• Information Rights in Health Care Core
• Mental Illness: Law and Policy Core
• Government Regulation, Health Policy & Ethics Core

• Death Law Elective
• Dispute Resolution in Australia Elective
• Class Action Litigation in Australia Elective
• Global Health Law Elective
• Forensic Psychology Elective
• Fundamentals of Regulation Elective
• Law, Genetics and New Health Technologies Elective
• Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy Elective

Why study with us?

• Experience the expertise of our prominent and dedicated specialists in Sydney Health Law.
• Join Australia’s largest and most specialised coursework programs in law, with 80 percent of units offered on an intensive basis.
• Explore the latest developments within the practice and profession of law.
• Domestic practitioners and international visitors teach 60 percent of the program.
• Acquire a postgraduate qualification from one of the world’s foremost law schools — ranked 16th in the world in the discipline of law by the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2023.
• Credit your units towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

Career paths

Health law concerns the legal issues arising from the provision of health care services, the impact of new technologies on health care, the regulation of the health professions, and public health.

The Master of Health Law is designed for lawyers or non-lawyers who wish to upgrade their qualifications for the purposes of career advancement or professional and academic interest.

Professional accreditation

Seminars, courses and units of study offered under Sydney Law School’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program meet the requirements for individual members of the Law Society of New South Wales or the New South Wales Bar Association to maintain legal registration through continuing education.