The Elder Law Certificate Program

The percentage of Americans over 60 has been growing steadily and significantly. The Elder Law Certificate program allows students to focus on the substantive law upon which an elder law practice is based as well as on the unique issues relevant to client counseling and professionalism when dealing with this expanding population.

Elder Law Certificate Program Requirements

Students should notify the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of their intention to satisfy the Certificate requirements before the end of their first full academic year. In addition to all other degree requirements, students must complete the following.

Required Courses:

Elder Law Externship or Introduction to Elder Law
Elder Law Research Project
Estates and Trusts

Selection of one of the following:

SW 833 Social Work and Aging
COMS 784 Proseminar in Communication and Aging a/k/a PSYCH 785 (when offered)
HDFL 741 Readings in Gerontology (when offered)
PSYCH 691 The Psychology of Aging (when offered)
PSYCH 787 Gerontology Proseminar (when offered)

Selection of two from the following:

Administrative Law
Disability Law (when offered)
Employment Discrimination
Elder Law Seminar
Estate Planning: Practice
Estate Planning: Principles
Healthcare Financing and Regulation
Health Law and Policy
Independent Research (on approved Elder Law topic)
Law and Bioethics
Public Benefit Law
Public Policy Clinic (on approved Elder Law topic)
Public Policy, Policy Analysis, and Disability Law (when offered)

Substititions may be authorized by the Elder Law Program Director. For further information contact Prof. Sandra McKenzie, scm@ku.edu.

For more information about the
Elder Law Program, please contact:

Program Director
LL.M. Program in Elder Law
University of Kansas
School of Law