• Graduate Studies Overview
• American Law (for Non-U.S. Lawyers)
• Banking and Financial Law
  • Program Overview
  • Director's Message
  • Degree Requirements
    • Seven-Semester Program
  • Courses of Study
  • Concentrations
  • Faculty
  • The Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law
  • Class Profiles
  • Meet Program Alumni
  • Meet the Staff
  • Academic Calendar
• Intellectual Property Law
• Executive LL.M. in International Business Law
• Taxation
• LL.M. Student Life
• Tuition and Financial Information

Concentrations

With more than twenty courses to choose from, students are sometimes faced with the difficulty of choosing the ten courses that would be most intellectually or professionally rewarding for them. To help focus their studies, the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law offers six optional concentrations from which students can choose:

• American Banking and Financial Law
• Compliance Management
• Financial Services Transactions
• International Banking and Financial Law
• Lending and Credit Transactions
• Securities Transactions

American Banking & Financial Law

A full range of financial law courses designed for students who intend to practice law or work in the United States financial services industry.

Eligible Courses:
Banking Structure and Regulation Bankruptcy Central Banks, Commercial Banks and Financial Markets Commercial Lending Compliance Programs Consumer Financial Services Fiduciary Law Financial Institutions Management Government Regulation of Insurance Hedge Funds	International Economic Institutions International Project Finance International Securities Transactions Mergers and Acquisitions Pooled Funds Securities Activities of Banks Securities Regulation Securitization Tax Aspects of International Banking Thesis Seminar Transnational Lending U.S. Mutual Fund Regulation

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Compliance Management

A new concentration which focuses on designing a compliance system for financial and commercial institutions in a regulatory environment which seeks to avoid the scandals, mismanagement and fraud that shook the industry in recent years.

Eligible Courses:
Banking Structure and Regulation Bankruptcy Compliance Programs Consumer Financial Services Fiduciary Law Financial Institutions Management	Government Regulation of Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions Securities Activities of Banks Securities Regulation Thesis Seminar U.S. Mutual Fund Regulation

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Financial Services Transactions

Designed for lawyers seeking to gain experience in conducting complex financial services transactions by complementing theory with a working knowledge of the practical aspects of structuring and executing a deal through in-class negotiation sessions and an internship. Students in this concentration are required to complete the Financial Services Law Internship.

Eligible Courses:
Bankruptcy Commercial Lending Hedge Funds International Project Finance International Securities Transactions Mergers and Acquisitions	Microfinance and Development Securities Regulation Securitization Tax Aspects of International Banking Transnational Lending

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International Banking and Financial Law

Intended to meet the needs of lawyers from abroad who must work in a banking and financial services market which is increasingly global in scope and the supervision of which has assumed a more multi-national character.

Eligible Courses:
Banking Structure and Regulation Bankruptcy Central Banks, Commercial Banks and Financial Markets Financial Institutions Management International Economic Institutions International Project Finance International Securities Transactions	Microfinance and Development Pooled Funds Securitization Tax Aspects of International Banking Thesis Seminar Transnational Lending

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Lending and Credit Transactions

Geared for lawyers who wish to specialize in debt financing, including issues involving the constitution of security over property, foreclosure and bankruptcy.

Eligible Courses:
Bankruptcy Commercial Lending Consumer Financial Services International Project Finance	Microfinance and Development Securitization Thesis Seminar Transnational Lending

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Securities Transactions

For those interested in matters involving equity and debt securities and the management of funds, including the obligations of issuers, their directors and officers as well as fund managers and agents, and brokers and dealers. 

Eligible Courses:
Bankruptcy Fiduciary Law Hedge Funds International Securities Transactions Pooled Funds	Securities Activities of Banks Securities Regulation Securitization Thesis Seminar U.S. Mutual Fund Regulation

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