The University of Mississippi School of Law’s Business Law Institute offers a concentration in business law for students seeking to develop expertise in this field during law school. In today’s competitive legal market, completing the concentration’s requirements provides an edge for students demonstrating commitment to and interest in business law. Upon finishing the concentration’s requirements, students receive a certificate and a transcript notation evidencing their completion. This business law concentration is one of the many enriching opportunities the Business Law Institute offers students aspiring to practice business law.
Business Law Concentration Requirements
To be acknowledged for a concentration in business law, a student must satisfy the following requirements by earning at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA in the following classes and other credit-earning activities:
- Successfully completing Business Associations;
- Successfully completing at least 9 credit hours of Core Courses;
- Successfully completing at least 3 credit hours that represent Intensive work in the subject area;
- Successfully completing at least 27 total credit hours in the above areas and Other Eligible Courses.
Due to scheduling constraints and prerequisites, students must plan carefully to complete the Concentration.
Required Courses
- Law 601: Business Associations
Core Courses (Pick 3 for 9 hours)
- Law 558: Bankruptcy
- Law 571: Secured Transactions
- Law 580: Intellectual Property
- Law 606: Corporate Finance Law
- Law 613: Income Taxation of Individuals
- Law 629: Business Planning
- Law 633: Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
- Law 634: Partnership Taxation
- Law 650: Securities Regulation
- International Tax
3 Hours that satisfy “intensive work in the subject area” include:
- Transactional Law Clinic
- A related externship
- Individual Study in a concentration eligible course
- Writing or skills class in a concentration eligible course
Eligible Business Law Concentration Courses
- Law 605: Administrative Law
- Law 674: Agricultural Law
- Law 651: Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Law 621: Antitrust Law
- Law 671: Analytical Methods
- Law 607: Banking Law
- Law 622: Bankruptcy Reorganization Seminar
- Law 629: Business Planning
- Law 738: Climate Change and Policy
- Law 694: Commercial Paper
- Law 677: Comparative National Space Law
- Law 657: Copyright Law
- Law 606: Corporate Finance Law
- Law 660: Deferred Compensation
- Law 717: Disability Law and Policy
- Law 756: Emerging Issues in Intellectual Property
- Law 728: Employee Benefits Law
- Law 645: Employer-Employee Relations
- Law 640: Employment Discrimination
- Law 746: Energy Law
- Law 709: Entertainment Law
- Law 581: Environmental Law
- Law 626: Federal Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers
- Law 661: Gaming Law
- Law 726: Health Care Law
- Law 633: Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
- Law 613: Income Taxation of Individuals
- Law 559: Insurance
- Law 580: Intellectual Property
- Law 753: International Aviation Finance and Leasing Law
- Law 722: International Commercial Arbitration
- Law 543: International Finance
- Law 732: International Intellectual Property
- Law 620: International Law
- Law 680: International Space Law
- Law 752: International Telecommunications Law
- Law 575: International Trade
- Law 614: Labor Law I
- Law 576: Law and Economics
- Law 573: Legal Accounting
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Law 609: Oil and Gas
- Law 634: Partnership Taxation
- Real Estate Transactions
- Law 571: Secured Transactions
- Law 650: Securities Regulation
- Law 647: Sports Law
- Law 755: Sports Law II
- Law 623: Tax Problems
- Law 683: Trademark Law
- Law 725: Clinics: Transactional
- Law 679: U.S. Domestic Space Law
- Law 723: U.S. National Aviation Law
- Law 735: White Collar Crime
- Law 618: Workers’ Compensation