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.
- Advising Corporate Boards Seminar [3]
- Antitrust Law [1 or 3 credits]
- Bankruptcy [3]
- Business Law Clinic [2-3]
- Comparative Corporate Governance Seminar [3]
- Corporate Governance and Control [1]
- Corporate Restructuring [1]
- Corporate Separateness in a Global Environment Seminar [3]
- Corporate Taxation [3]
- Corporate Voting: Practice, Theory, and Research Seminar [3]
- Drafting and Analysis of Business Documents [6]
- Economics of Regulation and Antitrust [3]
- Estate Taxation and Planning [3]
- EU Competition Law [1]
- Globalization and Foreign Investment Seminar [3]
- International Business Transactions [3]
- Introduction to Law and Economics [3]
- Introduction to the Leveraged Buyout [1]
- Law and Business of Climate Change [2]
- Law and Business Seminar [3]
- Law and Finance of Equity Markets [2]
- Law and Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions - [4]
- Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Dynamics [1]
- Partnership Taxation [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]
- Secured Transactions [3]
- Securities Litigation Policy Seminar [3]
- Taxation of Non-Profit/Tax Exempt Organizations [2-3]
- Tax Practice and Procedure [2]
- White Collar Crime Seminar [3]
