Financial regulation and capital markets specialization
This specialization is ideal for students who want to pursue a career in a global law firm, with an intergovernmental organization, or as in-house legal counsel for a financial firm. Students will choose twelve credit hours from the core courses, and may choose from elective courses covering areas related to finance, tax law, and business organizations, among others.
Core courses (choose 12 credits)
- Banking Law
- Corporate Finance
- Corporations
- International Securities Regulation
- Mergers and Acquisitions II
- Securities Regulation
Elective courses
- Antitrust Law I
- Advanced Bankruptcy: Business Reorganization
- Bankruptcy
- Business Planning
- Corporate Finance Law
- Corporate Taxation
- Estate Planning
- Ethics and Compliance
- Federal Criminal Law and White-Collar Crime
- Insurance Law
- International Business Transactions
- International Trade
- Introduction to Income Tax
- Law and Philanthropy
- Mediation for LLMs
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Municipal Finance
- Negotiable Instruments
- Negotiations
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Real Estate Finance
- Sales
- Secured Transactions
- Seminar in Commercial Law: Consumer Credit
- Seminar in Corporate Law: Financial Regulation
- Seminar in Tax Policy
- Tax Policy Colloquium
- Topics in Tax: Strategic Business and Tax Planning