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Health care is one of the most important spheres of activities of the state and society. The functioning and development of health care require proper legal support that is possible if there are enough qualified lawyers equipped with profound knowledge and skills in the health law area. The paper discusses the concept of health law that is new for the Ukrainian legal science as well as its integral components – medical law, public health law, and pharmaceutical law. The experience of teaching courses pertaining to the realm of health law at the Taras Schevtchenko National University of Kyiv that is the leader of Ukrainian higher education, particularly the legal one, is examined. It is the law faculty (currently – the Institute of Law) of the said University whereat the innovative discipline "Legal regulation of public health" ("Public Health Law") started to be taught for the first time in Ukraine. In 2019, the LLM specialization (the elective block of courses) "Health Law" that was unique for Ukraine, was introduced. The article mentions the key goals at the attainment of which the courses studied within the framework of the "Health Law" LLM program (totally ISSN 1728-2195 ЮРИДИЧНІ НАУКИ. 3(118)/2021 ~ 21 ~ 12 disciplines), are targeted. It analyzes the list and content of the courses belonging to the said LLM specialization that can be conditionally divided into three blocks: the key disciplines covering the "components" of health law; the disciplines ensuring understanding of the peculiarities of activities in the sphere of health care and the legal tools used for the governance in health care and management of healthcare institutions; and the courses directed at covering the topical issues of law and ethics in health care and at acquiring practical skills of protection of rights of healthcare actors. The paper points out that while teaching courses falling within the "Health Law" LLM specialization, major stress was made on getting students acquainted with the realities of practice. It pays attention to the use of modern methods and approaches to teaching as well as education technologies that allowed ensuring high efficiency of education, particularly under the conditions of lockdown caused by the spread of coronavirus disease COVID-19. The article also outlines major components of the education and scientific activity carried out at the Taras Shevtchenko National University of Kyiv, including that of the Education and Research Center for Medical Law of the Institute of Law. The conclusion is made that а scientific school of health law has been established at the Taras Shevtchenko National University of Kyiv. Keywords: health law, medical law, pharmaceutical law, health care, public health, public health law, LLM specialization, education, science.