MSL in Business, Finance, and Corporate Compliance Law

Director: M. Rand; Faculty Director:D. Mitchell;Faculty Advisers:M. Abramowicz, J. Bearer-Friend, K. Brown, W. Dodge, T. Gabaldon, K. Johnson, S. Kieff, J. Kohn, W. Kovacic, J. Manns, J. McClane, R. Pierce, B. Richman, O. Simmons


MSL candidates in Business, Finance, and Corporate Compliance Law (BFL-CC) must complete 3 credits of Introduction to US Law and Legal Writing for MSL Students (6950) and a minimum of 16 credit hours from among the list of BFLCC Core Courses and Electives and BFL-designated courses1, including four credits of Corporations (6250) and at least eight additional credit hours of Core Courses and Electives.

Core Courses and Electives2

  • Corporations (6250)
  • Securities Regulation (6252)
  • Banking Law (6290)
  • Blockchain: Law, Policy, and Cybersecurity (6894)
  • Anti-Corruption and Compliance (6511)
  • International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism (6521)
  • Information Privacy Law (6486)
  • Consumer Privacy and Data Protection: Regulatory Approaches (6896)
  • Internet Law (6493)‡
  • Cybersecurity Law and Technology (6890)‡
  • Employment Law (6268)
  • Labor Law (6266)
  • Federal Income Taxation (6300)
  • Corporate Finance (6254)
  • Law and Accounting (6602)
  • Consumer Protection Law (6286)
  • White Collar Crime (6364) 

Courses2

  • Corporations (6250)
  • Securities Regulation (6252)
  • Corporate Finance (6254)
  • Mergers and Acquisitions (6256)
  • Regulation of Investment Advisers and Investment Funds (6260)
  • Regulation of Derivatives (6261)
  • Corporation Law Seminar (6262)
  • Selected Topics in Corporate Law (6263)
  • Securities Law Seminar (6264)
  • Selected Topics in Securities Law (6267)
  • Employment Law (6268)
  • Employee Benefit Plans (6272)
  • Labor Law (6266)
  • Secured Transactions (6280)
  • UCC Sale of Goods (6255)
  • Commercial Paper - Payment Systems (6282)
  • Creditors’ Rights and Debtors’ Protection (6284)
  • Business Bankruptcy and Reorganization (6285)
  • Consumer Protection Law (6286)
  • Selected Topics in Banking Law (6289)
  • Banking Law (6290)
  • Banking Law Seminar (6292)
  • Unincorporated Business Organizations and Agency Law (6294)
  • Sports and the Law (6295)
  • Business Planning (6296)*
  • Insurance (6298)
  • Federal Income Taxation (6300)
  • Corporate Taxation (6302)
  • Partnership and LLC Taxation (6304)
  • International Taxation (6312)
  • Nonprofit Organizations: Law and Taxation (6314)
  • State and Local Taxation (6316)
  • Selected Topics in Tax Policy Law (6317)
  • Tax Policy Seminar (6318)
  • Law of Real Estate Transactions (6330)
  • Land Use Law (6332)
  • Law of Real Estate Financing (6334)
  • Reading Group (6351)‡
  • White Collar Crime (6364)
  • Antitrust Law (6402)
  • Advanced Antitrust Law Seminar (6403)
  • Selected Topics in Advanced Antitrust Law (6405)
  • Regulated Industries (6406)
  • Public Law Seminar (6426)‡
  • Selected Topics in Public Law (6427)‡
  • Lessons in Leadership (6611) ‡
  • Trade and Sustainable Development (6435)
  • Energy Law Seminar (6441)‡
  • Environmental Issues in Business Transactions (6452)
  • Entertainment Law (6475)
  • Anti-Corruption and Compliance (6511)
  • International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism (6521)
  • International Business Transactions (6522)
  • The International Competition Law Regime (6523)
  • International Commercial Law (6524)
  • International Trade Law (6526)
  • Advanced International Trade Law (6527)
  • Law of the European Union (6534)
  • International Finance (6541)
  • International Banking and Investment Law (6542)
  • International Investment Law and Arbitration (6544)
  • International Project Finance (6545)
  • Chinese Business Law (6549)
  • U.S. Export Control Law and Regulation (6553)
  • International Arbitration (6556)*
  • Introduction to Transactional Islamic Law (6557)
  • International Negotiations (6558)*
  • International Business Transaction Seminar (6564)
  • Law and Economics (6598)
  • Law and Accounting (6602)*
  • Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic (6621)*
  • Negotiations (6648)*
  • Legal Drafting (Transactional) (6652)*
  • Legal Drafting (Mergers and Acquisitions) (6652)*
  • Field Placement (6668)*‡
  • Business Lawyering (6810)*  

 

  1. Courses noted with a double-cross (‡) require advance approval of the BFL Program Director to count toward the curriculum requirement.
  2. Note that not all courses are offered in the form of an online modality, nor every semester.

Experiential learning courses are noted with an asterisk (*).