Law & Business Curriculum
The Law & Business curriculum offers students interested in a career in corporate law a solid foundation in how businesses work, including an introduction to basic finance and accounting principles for students who lack an undergraduate business or accounting degree.
Required Law & Business Courses
Students enrolled in the Law & Business Program take the following core law school courses in their second or third year:
- Corporations or Corporations and Business Entities
- Introduction to Accounting
- Introduction to Corporate Finance for Lawyers
- Securities Regulation
- Federal Tax Law
Law & Business Electives
Students may choose from a wide range of courses to fulfill an elective requirement of nine credit hours. Students may also take up to six hours of business, finance or accounting courses approved as non-law electives.
- Antitrust Law [3]
- Arbitration Seminar [3]
- Bankruptcy [3]
- Commercial Real Estate Transactions [1]
- Comparative Corporate Governance Seminar [3]
- Comparative Corporate Governance Short Course [1]
- Corporate Governance and Control [1]
- Corporate Restructuring [1]
- Corporate Taxation [3]
- Current Issues in Transactional Practice [4]
- Drafting and Analysis of Business Documents [6]
- Establishment and Management of Nonprofit Organizations [1]
- Estate Taxation and Planning [3]
- Franchise Law [2]
- International Business Transactions [3]
- International Commercial Arbitration Short Course [1]
- International Commercial Arbitration Seminar [3]
- International Financial Regulation [3]
- International Insolvency [2]
- International Investment Treaty Arbitration Seminar [3]
- International Mergers and Acquisitions [3]
- International Mergers and Acquisitions Short Course [1]
- Introduction to Law and Economics [3]
- Law and Business Seminar [3]
- Managing Insolvent Businesses [1]
- Mergers and Acquisitions [3-4]
- Mergers and Acquisitions Short Course [1]
- Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Dynamics [1]
- Partnership Taxation [2-3]
- Problems in Corporate Law [1]
- Professional and Ethical Considerations in Corporate Practice [2]
- Real Estate Finance and Development [3]
- Realities of Commercial Lending [1]
- Representing the Family Business [2]
- Role of Corporations Seminar [3]
- Secured Transactions [3]
- Securities Litigation Policy Seminar [3]
- Tax Practice and Procedure [2]
- Taxation of Non-Profit/Tax Exempt Organizations [2-3]
- Theories of the Firm in Law and Economics Seminar [3]
- Transnational Litigation [3]
- Venture Capital [3]
- White Collar Crime Seminar [3]
Professor Randall Thomas &
Professor Richard Aldrich
Richard Aldrich, a partner in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Class of 1975, coteaches a short course in International Mergers and Acquisitions with Francisco Müssnich, a founding partner of Barbosa Mussnich & Aragao Advocagos, and Paul Schnell, a New York-based partner with Skadden Arps.