The Certificate in Business & Corporate Law provides on-campus MLS students with an opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to become well-rounded business lawyers. The approved courses for this certificate draw from the curriculum in this area, which ensures that students develop a strong understanding of fundamental areas of business and corporate law while also acquiring advancing training in specialized areas such as corporate finance, law, economics, publicly traded corporations, and taxation.
Students need to earn 9 credits as part of the 24 credit units required for the LLM. Students cannot earn a certificate without completing the LLM degree.
Specifically, students must do the following:
1. Complete Corporations.
2. Earn 6 additional credits from the below list:
- Accounting for Tax Lawyers
- Advanced Securities Regulation Seminar
- Antitrust
- Art of Writing an International Agreement
- Bankruptcy
- Business Negotiation Theory & Practice
- Business Planning & Drafting: Fundamentals of M&A
- Business Reorganizations
- CEL: Entrepreneur Consulting Team
- Commercial Law
- Comparative Business Negotiation
- Consumer Law
- Contracts
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Taxation
- Corporate & White Collar Crime
- Employee Benefits: ERISA & Tax
- ERISA Fiduciary Law
- Financial Accounting for Lawyers
- Information Privacy Law
- International Business Transactions
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International & Domestic Business Lawyering
- International Taxation
- International Taxation & Finance Seminar
- Investor-State Arbitration
- Investment Banking & Private Equity
- Law, Business, & Governance
- Law and Economics
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Partnership Taxation
- Past & Future of Our Financial Regulation
- Private Equity Transactions
- Real Estate Transactions
- Reorganization Seminar
- Secured Transactions
- Securities Regulation
- Startup Law
- Survey of Intellectual Property
- Tax-Exempt Organizations
- Transnational Litigation & Arbitration
- UCC: Article 2
- U.S. Banking Law & Regulation