Graduate Programs: LL.M. Degree in Business and Corporate Governance Law
Required Courses
** International students Only
**101 - Fundamentals of the American Legal System (1).
This innovative, one week, intensive course provides a foundation for, and a bridge into the law school curriculum. The course provides substantive knowledge concerning the American legal system, with a partiuclar emphais on civil litigation. This focus is intended to provide international students with the necesary background to understand the significance of substantive courses early on. In addition, this course introduces students to the professional responsibilities of an attorney to provide an important sense of the moral universe in which the lawyer operates. The course also introduces and assists students how to read and brief cases, in addition to discussing cases in class. By establishing a framework of substantive knowledge, as well as legal analysis, the coaurse enhances student understanding in their legal studies. (Carey, Ho and faculty)
270 - Business Organizations (4) (Fall)
This course gives brief treatment to agency and covers partnership as an alternative to the corporate form. Principal emphasis is on the law as it applied to the organization and functioning of corporations. The course focuses on structure and mechanics, capitalization, distributions, organic changes, and duties and liabilities of directors, officers, and controlling shareholders. The federal securities acts are introduced with particular attention to Rule 10b-5. Substantial attention is give to the special problems of the close corporation. (Professors Murdock, Kaufman, Rosenberg)
371 - International Business Transactions (3)
An introduction to the legal aspects of international business. The course emphasizes the legal problems associated with international trade in goods and foreign direct investment, and covers regulation at the private, national, and international levels, and also may include an extended treatment of international litigation problems and/or the role of the multinational enterprise in world business. (Moses)
480 - Business Planning (2)
An introduction to a number of common business transactions, including: formation of a corporation; stockholders agreements; compensation and fringe benefits; real estate transactions; purchase and sale of a business; public offering; secured borrowing; hostile tender offer; leveraged buy-out; and work-out. The principal purpose is to provide a general business law background for the business lawyer and the commercial litigator. (Rosenberg)
** 801 - M.J. Legal Research and Writing-Business Law (2) (Fall)
This course provides an introduction to legal research methods. Through a series of exercises on relevant topics, students will continue to refine their writing skills. By researching and writing on varied issues, students learn to apply legal research techniques. Students read and analyze legal authority and learn how to apply legal authorities to particular fact situations. Through a series of legal memoranda writing assignments, students develop their analytical and writing skills. Computerized research techniques are included in the course.
850 - LL.M. Paper Business Law (3) (Fall and Spring)
Each LL.M. student must write a paper of publishable quality. The paper, written under the supervision of a faculty advisor, should integrate a number of issues covered in the business law curriculum. It is expected that each LL.M. paper will make an important contribution to business law literature.
