Students may affiliate with the Center for Business and Financial Law either as Harlan Scholars or as Associates.
Affiliating with the Center provides students the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills in business and financial services law by concentrating their course of study, working directly with faculty members and alumni affiliated with the Center, and participating in projects and events sponsored by the Center.
Student affiliates should also consider joining the CBFL Fellowship program, which entails students taking a leadership role in the Center's projects and programming and potentially qualifying for paid positions and scholarship funds.
Students that affilated with the CBFL must meet the follwing curricular requirements:
1. Students must take
each of the following core courses and should do so as early as possible in
their course scheduling
Accounting for Lawyers
(2 credits, students can "place" out of this course, if they
have an undergraduate degree in Accounting or have taken an undergraduate
or graduate course in Basic Accounting and received a grade of B+ or
higher.)
Corporations
(4 credits, ideally in the fall after the first year.)
Federal Income Tax: Individual
(4 credits)
Securities Regulation (4 credits, ideally in the spring after the first year.)
2. Third Year
Capstone Experience (Fourth Year for Evening Division
students)
This requirement may be
fulfilled by writing a Business/Corporate Law-oriented Note for Law
Review or by enrolling in the Center's Capstone Seminar or another
seminar or tutorial taught by faculty affiliated with the Center. In each
case, a substantial research paper will be required. In special cases,
students may obtain approval for other special projects in the area of
business law.
3. At least two of the
following courses
Agency, Partnership and Limited Liability Entities
Business Law Issues in Structuring the Closely Held
Enterprise
Corporate Fraud and Corporate Disclosure
Derivatives Market Regulation
Seminar
Federal
Income Tax: Partnerships
Federal Regulation of Mutual Funds
International Business Transactions
Negotiation, Counseling and Interviewing