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 and extracurricular requirements:
1. Students must take
the following core courses and should do so as early as possible in their
course scheduling
Corporations
(4 credits, ideally in the fall after the first year.)
Commercial
Law (4 credits). This requirement may also be fulfilled by taking
either Sales
and Negotiable Instruments or Secured
Transactions.
Securities Regulation (4 credits, ideally in the spring after the first year.)
2. Experiential
Requirement
This requirement may be fulfilled by taking a business law clinic* or by writing a business or financial-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. Students may also be able able to satisfy this requirement by undertaking other projects sponsored or endorsed by the Center.
*The clinics that satisfy the Experiential Requirement are the Securities Arbitration Clinic, the Transactional Law Clinic, and the Tax Planning Clinic.
3. At least two of the
following courses
Agency, Partnership and Limited Liability Entities
Business Planning: Startups and Venture Capital
Derivatives Market Regulation
Seminar
Federal Income Tax: Individual
Federal
Income Tax: Partnerships
Federal Regulation of Mutual Funds
Financial
Law and Regulatory Policy
Securities Arbitration Clinic
Transactional Law Clinic: Start-ups and
Non-profits
Drafting: Commercial Finance
Hedge Funds: Their Regulation and Structure
International Business Transactions