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Requirements

BU Law offers an elective Business Organizations and Finance Law Concentration. This concentration recognizes that there is a significant demand for business lawyers, that there is a need for specialized training and that many students would be served by a separate credential in business and finance law. In addition, BU Law has significant strengths in the business law area, and other schools within Boston University offer significant educational opportunities for students of business and finance law.

Once students have decided to pursue a concentration, they should complete an Online Intent to Concentrate Form (also available in the Registrar’s Office). In the final semester, students will receive a Concentration Completion Form from the Registrar’s Office to show the course work and written work that satisfies the concentration requirements.

Program Requirements

A student may be certified as having completed a concentration in Business Organizations and Finance Law by meeting the following requirements:

1. Must take a minimum of 24 credits and seven courses from the following lists of courses

2. Must complete a substantial written work on a business organization or finance law or related topic. This requirement can be satisfied with the same written work that satisfies the existing Upper-class Writing Requirement. If the paper was done in a course, seminar, or for another purpose and the supervising professor is an adjunct (part-time) faculty member, then the faculty concentration advisor must review the paper and confirm that it satisfies the concentration paper requirement.

3. Must satisfy a Corporate Foundation Requirement by taking the following three courses:
   
   Corporations (JD 816)
   Securities Regulation (JD 883)
   Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (JD 887) or
   Partnership Tax I (TX 930) and Partnership Tax II (TX 940) ***

4. Must satisfy an Accounting Requirement by taking one course from the following list. Students who previously have taken one or more courses in accounting must have their accounting course selection approved by the faculty concentration advisor--the advisor may disallow courses that involve repetition and may approve waiver of the accounting requirement. A waiver does not reduce the 24 credit and seven-course requirement cited in (1) above.
   
   Principles of Accounting (JD 872)
   Financial Reporting and Control (GSM course- AC 711)+
   
   + Note You may need the professor’s permission and the Graduate School of Management’s permission to take this course.

5. Must satisfy a Corporate Finance requirement by taking one course from the following list. Students who previously have taken one or more courses in finance must have their corporate finance course selection approved by the faculty concentration advisor. The advisor may disallow courses that involve repetition and may approve waiver of the corporate finance requirement for students with previous course experience. A waiver does not reduce the 24 credit and seven-course requirement.

Corporate Finance (JD 985)
Financial Management (GSM course-FE 722)+
Corporate Financial Management (GSM course-FE 820)+

+ Note You may need the professor’s permission and the Graduate School of Management’s permission to take these courses.

6. Must satisfy a General requirement by taking two courses from the following list. Note that the two courses required in this section must be in addition to those courses required in (#3) above. (For example, if a student takes Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders to satisfy the Corporate Foundation Requirement in (#3) above, then the student cannot count Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders as one of the two courses required for the General requirement.) Students may take more than two courses from this list and are encouraged to do so. In selecting courses, students may wish to consult with the faculty concentration advisor for advice.

Antitrust Law (JD 838)
Administrative Law (JD 801)
Advanced Administrative Law (JD 863)
Bankruptcies and Workouts (TX 936)***
Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights (JD 803)
Bankruptcy Practice (S) (JD 794)
Biotechnology Law and Ethics (JD 933)
Business of Law (JD 789)
Central Banks, Commercial Banks and Financial Markets (BK 983)**
Commercial Code (JD 807)
Commercial Law: Payments (JD 815)
Commercial Law: Sales (JD 808) *
Commercial Law: Secured Transactions (JD 805)
Commercial Lending (BK 991)**
Communication Law (S) (JD 811)
Compliance Programs (BK 931)**
Consolidated Corporations (TX 932)***
Consumer Financial Services (BK 995)**
Consumer Law (JD 897)
Corporate Governance (JD 941)
Current Issues in Corporate Governance (JD 949)*
Current Issues in Employment Law (JD 906)
Deals: Economic Structure of Transactions (JD 904)
E-Commerce, Intellectual Property, and the Business Lawyer (JD 997)
Employee Benefit Plans (JD 790)
Employment Discrimination and Employment Law (JD 834)
Environmental Law (JD 833)
European VAT (TX 952)***
Executive Compensation (TX 925)***
Fiduciary Law (JD 860)
Financial Institutions Management (BK 975)**
Government Regulation of Financial Services (JD 864) OR
  Banking Structure & Regulation (BK 925)**
Government Regulation of Insurance (BK 990)**
Health Care Transactions (JD 998)
Inbound International Taxation (TX 953)***
Independent Study (with approval of subject by concentration advisor)
Insurance Law (JD 850)
International Business Agreements (JD 959)
International Business Arbitration (JD 980)
International Business Transactions (JD 842)
International Economic Institutions (BK 930)**
International Project Finance (JD 936 OR BK 957** limited space)
International Securities Transactions (BK 963)**
International Tax I (TX 906)***
International Tax II (TX 939)***
International Tax III (TX 927)***
International Trade Regulation (JD 858)
Labor Law (JD 851)
Law & Economics Workshop (JD 940)
Law and Sports (JD 886)
LIfe Cycle of a Business Venture (TX 918)***
Mergers and Acquisitions (JD 988)
Mutual Funds (Investment Companies) (JD 852)
Non-Profit Organizations (JD 844)
Partnership Tax I (TX 930) *** (if not used to satisfy #3 above)
Partnership Tax II (TX 940) *** (if not used to satisfy #3 above)
Patent Law (JD 870)
Pensions and Profit Sharing Plans (TX 936)***
Pooled Funds and Investor Protection (BK 950)**
Public Policy Toward the High-Tech Industry (JD 996)*
Real Estate Finance & Tax (JD 914) OR Real Estate Taxation (TX 946)***
Representing Life Sciences Co. (S) (JD 907)
Securities Activities of Banks (BK 980)**
Securitization (JD 987) (OR BK 987 if JD section is not offered)**
Standards and Responsibilities in Tax Practice (TX 914)***
State and Local Taxation (TX 928)***
Structuring Intellectual Property Ownership (TX 944)***
Taxation of Corporations & Shareholders (JD 887)
   (If not used to satisfy #3 above)
Taxation of Financial Assets (JD 971)
Tax Aspects of International Banking (BK 964)**
Tax Accounting (TX 913)***
Tax Aspects of Buying and Selling a Business (TX 920)***
Tax Issues in Business Decisions (TX 938)***
Tax Policy (JD 799)
Taxation of Financial Products (TX 917)***
Taxation of Financial Products - Advanced (TX 949)***
Taxation of Intellectual Property I (TX 955)***
Technology Commercialization (LA 996)
Technology Licensing (JD 960)
Transnational Lending and Trade Financing (BK 958)**
Trust and Honesty (JD 965)
Unfair Competition and Trademark Law (JD 780)
U.S. Mutual Fund Regulation (BK 932)**
U.S. Transfer Pricing (TX 951)***

* Not offered 2008-2009

**Offered through the Banking and Financial Law Program. Students must get permission from and register through the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law.

***Offered through the Graduate Tax Program. Students must get permission from and register through the of Graduate Tax Program Office.

Students who wish to take courses not listed above in satisfaction of any of the above requirements may do so with the approval of the faculty concentration advisor. The concentration advisor will report any substitutions or waivers to the Associate Dean and to the Chair of the J.D. Program Committee.

Students receiving a 3.5 grade point average in courses that satisfy the above requirements will be certified as earning honors in the concentration. Please note that, consistent with our Academic Regulations, only BU Law courses will be included when calculating the law school grade point average and when determining if the student has attained a 3.5 average. All BU Law courses and seminars taken that could be applied toward the concentration will be included in determining honors, unless, by the end of the applicable add/drop period, a student designates, in writing, that he/she does not want a course/seminar taken that semester to count towards the concentration. This "opt-out" provision does not apply to courses/seminars that are required for the concentration. Also, all BU Law courses taken that could be applied to the concentration will be factored in when determining honors.

To ensure maximum flexibility for students in their future career decisions, transcripts of students who elect the Business Organizations and Finance Law Concentration will not reflect the concentration. Rather, the School of Law Registrar's Office will record completion of the concentration and honors in the concentration, and will make available official documentation of completion of the concentration and honors at the student's request.

Professor Stephen Marks (617.358.3213) is the faculty advisor for this concentration. Students who have questions about the substantive aspects of the concentration (including waiver requests) should contact Professor Marks. Questions about the administrative details of the concentration may be directed to Associate Dean Chris Marx (4th floor; 617.358.1800).