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The business law concentration allows students to enroll in courses ranging from taxation and banking to international trade and finance. Knowledge obtained in the classroom is applied in one of the required experiential courses such as the Community Development Clinic or the Attorney Practice Externship. The faculty advisors for this concentration are Fred Brown, Jaime Alison Lee and Barbara White.

Required Courses
Business Organizations (recommended taking in second year, preferably first semester for day students; recommend taking in second or third year for evening students)
Federal Income Tax(recommend take in second year for day students; recommend taking in second or third year for evening students)

 

Choose one of the following:
Sales and Leases
Secured Transactions

 

Choose three of the following courses. Of the three courses, one must either satisfy the scholarly writing requirement or be designated below as a writing course for purposes of the concentration. Additionally, one of the courses must be experiential. (While three courses must be taken in this category, a particular course may count as both an experiential course and a designated writing course for purposes of this category鈥檚 requirements).

 

• Advanced Business Organizations Seminar (scholarly writing) 
• Advanced Legal Research involving business law topic that is approved by the Business Law Concentration Advisors (writing) 
• Antitrust
• Attorney Practice Externship involving business law that is approved by the Director of the Attorney Practice Externship in consultation with the Business Law Concentration Advisors (experiential)  
• Banking Law Workshop (experiential) (writing) 
• Business Planning Workshop
• Community Development Clinic(experiential) (writing)
• Corporate Counsel Externship
• Corporate Taxation
• Fundamentals of Federal Income Tax II
• International Business Transactions
• MSBA - UBalt Business Law Clerkship Fellow (experiential) (writing)
• Partnership Taxation
• Securities Regulation
• Tax Clinic I (experiential) (writing) 
• Transactional Skills Workshop (experiential) (writing)

While not part of the concentration requirements, the following courses are recommended for students wanting to specialize in Business Law:

• Administrative Law
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Remedies
• Civil Discovery in the Digital Age: Law and Process
• Collective Bargaining
• Construction Law
• Cyberspace Law Seminar
• Employment Discrimination Law
• Employment Law
• Government Contracting Seminar
• Labor Law
• Law and Economics
• Sports Law
• Tax Policy Seminar
• Workers' Compensation