Core Requirements
- Business Associations
- Mergers & Acquisitions (Business Associations is a pre-requisite)
- Securities Regulation
- Business Planning: Financing the Start-up Business and Venture Capital Financing (Business Associations is a pre-requisite)
Advanced Electives - Four Units Required
Students also must take at least four units of electives (typically two courses) that add to the substantive knowledge base needed by a corporate transactional lawyer. The following list includes all courses and their unit values offered during the past few years that are satisfactory electives. Units for overlapping courses will not be counted twice.
This list may be updated from time to time to reflect additional courses:
Four-Unit Electives
- Commercial Law (4)
Three-Unit Electives
- Antitrust Law (3)
- Artificial Intelligence & the Law (3) (This is a first-year elective; students can either take this version or the 2-unit seminar listed below)
- Bankruptcy (3)
- Business Strategy for Lawyers (3)
- Copyright Law (3)
- Corporate Finance (3)
- Employment Law (3)
- Income Tax I (3)
- Innovation Law (3)
- International Business Transactions (3)
- Introduction to Income Taxation (3)
- Law of Sales: Domestic and International (3)
- Patent Law (3)
- Secured Transactions in Real Property (3)
- Technology & Privacy (3)
- Trademark Law (3)
Two-Unit Electives
- Accounting for Lawyers (2)
- Advertising Law (2)
- Antitrust and Intellectual Property in the Digital Economy (2)
- Artificial Intelligence and Law Seminar (2)
- Business & Legal Affairs for Alternative/Reality TV Programming and Distribution (2)
- California Privacy and Data Security Law (2)
- California Privacy Law in 2020 (2)
- Cannabis Law (2)
- Cyber Risk Management & Incident Response (2)
- Cybersecurity and Regulatory Compliance (2)
- Employment Law (2)
- Executive Compensation (2)
- Exploring the Role of In-House Counsel (2)
- Financial Basics for Lawyers (2)
- Financial Institutions (2)
- Health Care Organizations: Regulatory Compliance & Business Planning (2)
- Income Tax Timing Issues (2)
- International Taxation I (2)
- International Taxation II (2)
- Internet Law (3)
- Licensing in a Global Context (2)
- Motion Picture Contract Drafting (2)
- Smart Contracts and Financial Technology: Blockchain Law (2)
- Tax Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions (2)
- Trade Secret Law (2)
- Transactional Negotiation Team (2)
FAQs and Important Scheduling Considerations
Click on this Course Scheduling Guide for course scheduling considerations and sample course paths for 2L and 3L years. If you are an evening division student and have concentration-related scheduling questions, please email the Concentration Faculty Adviser.
Experiential Component
Students must complete the capstone course, Business Planning: Financing the Start-Up and Venture Capital Financing. This course allows students to understand the lawyer's role in planning and completing business transactions on behalf of start-up businesses by taking a "client" (i.e., an entrepreneur) through a "simulated deal" (i.e., a capital raising transaction for the new business client). Use of this simulated deal format acquaints students with the legal, ethical and business issues that confront the transactional lawyer in representing an early stage growth company.
Although they will not count towards the elective unit requirements noted above, students are also encouraged to consider other experiential offerings related to the practice of corporate law, through internships and externships. In addition to academic advising, students enrolled in the Corporate Concentration will be invited to unique networking opportunities and offered career guidance.
If you have any questions about the Concentration or counseling issues, consult with the Concentration Faculty Adviser or the Director of Concentrations.