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• Banking and Financial Law
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• Intellectual Property Law
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• Executive LL.M. in International Business Law
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Curriculum and Faculty

The curriculum focuses on the essential topics that form the basis of an international transaction-based practice. It consists of the following six three-credit classes, all taught from the American law perspective:

• Contracts
• Corporations
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Securities Regulation
• International Business Transactions and Agreements
• Corporate Finance and Accounting

In addition, students participate in a daily workshop, “Current Issues in U.S. Business Law,” which covers current legal topics in the important fields of bankruptcy, intellectual property, alternative dispute resolution, international business arbitration, multijurisdictional practice and competition (antitrust) law. The workshop leaders will include prominent practitioners and faculty. The workshop grants two credits.

The program’s instructors consist of BU Law’s regular teaching faculty – the faculty named #3 in America in The Princeton Review and #1 in America in The Leiter Report on Law School Rankings. These are the same acclaimed professors who teach in the school’s J.D. curriculum. Among the anticipated instructors are Professors Mark Pettit (contracts); Kevin Outterson (corporations); Stephen Marks (mergers & acquisitions) and Virginia Greiman (International Business Transactions and Agreements).