Academic Programs
Certificate in Business Law
To earn a Certificate in Business Law, a student must complete the eighty-six semester hours required for the Juris Doctor degree and must satisfy all JD requirements. Within the course work required for the JD, a student must complete fifteen (15) credit hours from the listed business law courses. A student must complete six (6) hours of required courses and nine (9) hours of elective courses. All courses are three (3) credits unless otherwise indicated. Certificate courses may not be audited.
An applicant must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.20 in the Certificate courses. If a student takes more than the 15 credits required for the Certificate, all of the business law courses will factor into the final GPA. A student must declare on the Certificate application form all business law courses taken, even if a grade is not yet known.
Required Courses
- Law 102: Business Organizations
- And either Law 600: Taxation of Corporations & Shareholders, or Law 620: Partnership Taxation (Note: Law 212, Federal Income Taxation & Policy, or Law 210, Federal Income Taxation, are prerequisites for both of these classes)
Elective Courses and Seminars
- Law 401: Advanced Antitrust
- Law 290: Anatomy of a Deal
- Law 402: Antitrust
- Law 458: Banking Law
- Law 415: Bankruptcy
- Law 460: Business Planning
- Law 453: Commercial Arbitration
- Law 310: Commercial Paper
- Law 497: Consumer Protection
- Law 300: Corporate Finance
- Law 461: Corporate Reorganization
- Law 358: Employee Benefits
- Law 202: Employment Discrimination
- Law 210: Federal Income Taxation (3 credits)
- Law 212: Federal Income Taxation & Policy (4 credits)
- Law 476: Financial Accounting for Lawyers
- Law 326: Financial Regulation in the Wake of the Crisis
- Law 462: Insurance Law
- Law 448: International Business Transactions
- Law 608: International Tax
- Law 349: International Trade Law
- Law 417: Labor Law
- Law 473: Law & Economics
- Law 348: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Law 611: Offshore Financial Centers: Cayman Islands
- Law 475: Negotiations
- Law 620: Partnership Taxation
- Law 420: Real Estate Transactions
- Law 304: Sales
- Law 432: Securities Regulation
- Law 305: Secured Transactions
- Law 604: Tax Exempt Organizations
- Law 218: Taxation of Structured Real Estate Transactions
Application for Admission (NON - JD Student)
Students may only apply for one certificate.
