An effective business lawyer must understand and anticipate the many legal and financial ramifications of a client’s venture, ranging across many subject areas. The Center for Business Law and Regulation offers an interwoven fabric of courses to provide this knowledge in the areas of corporate, securities, commercial, e-Commerce, bankruptcy, taxation, real estate, and environmental law, as well as the underlying business and regulatory context.
First-Year Courses
During their first year of study, Contracts, Torts, and Property Law courses provide students with core knowledge that forms the foundation for upper-level courses. During spring semester of their first year, students may take one elective, a first-year perspectives course. These include Dispute Resolution; International Law; Intellectual PropertySurvey; Courts, Public Policy and Social Change; and Perspectives in Law and Biomedicine, all of which explore the legal context in which businesses operate.
Upper-Level Courses
Fundamental business law electives help students build a base for advanced-level courses and prepare for summer employment after the second year:
- Business Associations
- Commercial Paper
- Federal Income Tax
- Financial Principles for Lawyers
- Sales and Secured Financing
- Secured Transactions
We offer a wide range of specialized courses that allow students to pursue in greater depth areas of particular interest to them. Business law courses are listed by area of practice; a few appear in more than one category.
Business Regulation and Litigation
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Securities Regulation
- Antitrust Law
- Business Organizations Research Seminar
- Business Planning
- Business Torts
- Commercial Information and the Law
- Complex Litigation
- Copyright
- Copyright in the Digital Millennium
- Current Controversies in Environmental Law
- Digital Law and Business
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Environmental Law
- e-Payment Systems
- Intellectual Property Theory Seminar
- International Enterprise Design
- International Intellectual Property
- IT Principles for Lawyers
- Labor and Employment Law Issues in the Global Economy
- Labor Law
- Patent Law
- Pretrial Practice
- Regulatory Policy Research Lab
- Securities Regulation
- Selected Topics in Law and Business
- Trademark Law
- Trademark Litigation
- Trial Tactics
- Unfair Competition
- Advanced Contract Law
- Advanced Contracts: e-Commerce
- Advanced Real Estate Development: Shopping Centers
- Bankruptcy
- Basic Debtor-Creditor Law
- Commercial Information and the Law
- Insurance
- Insurance Advanced Research
- Products Liability
- Real Estate Transactions & Finance
- Advanced Securities Regulation
- Antitrust Law
- Representing the Start-Up Technology Company
- Business Planning
- Business Tax Problems
- Capital Markets, Venture Capital, and Management Principles for Lawyers
- e-Payment Systems
- Finance, Law & Corporate Governance
- Global Corporate Governance Lab
- International Business Organizations
- International Business Transactions
- International Trade and Development
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities Regulation
- Business Planning
- Business Tax Problems
- ERISA I
- ERISA II
- Estate Planning
- Federal Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
- Federal Taxation of Exempt Organizations
- Federal Taxation of Partnerships & Partners
- International Tax Policy Seminar
- Tax Policy Seminar
- Taxation of Corporate Reorganizations
- Advanced Real Estate Development: Shopping Centers
- Advanced Securities Regulation
- Antitrust Law
- Business Associations, Advanced: Representing the Internet Start-Up
- Business Planning
- Community Development Clinic I
- Community Development Clinic II
- Community Development Law
- Copyright
- Copyright Litigation
- Environmental Anatomy of a Business Transaction
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Organizations and Finance
- Health Care Transactions
- Intellectual Property Theory Seminar
- Intellectual Property Transactions
- International Business Transactions
- International Enterprise Design
- International Intellectual Property
- International Trade and Development
- Intellectual Property Advanced Research
- Lawyering Process
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Patent Law
- Patent Litigation
- Real Estate Mortgages
- Real Estate Transactions and Finance
- Representing the Start-Up Technology Company