Business Law Curriculum at Yale

Business Law Courses


The course offerings in business law at Yale are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. In addition to developing familiarity with the institutional landscape covered in core substantive law courses, students considering pursuing careers as transaction lawyers or corporate litigators need to master the basic analytical skills of financial accounting, finance, microeconomics and statistics. The following Law School courses impart that knowledge: Financial Accounting for Lawyers; Introduction to Microeconomic Theory for Law Students; Quantitative Corporate Finance; and Empirical Law & Economics. (In 2009-10 the Law School will not be offering a course in microeconomics; Economics 150, a Yale College course, covers similar material.) For Professor Romano's perspective on the implications of the transformation of corporate law scholarship and practice for business law education, click here.

Yale Law School Bulletin

Advanced Antitrust. 3 units. A.K. Klevorick

Advanced Deals Workshop: Public Company M&A.  3 units. E.S. Robinson

Anatomy of the Financial Crisis. 2 units. M. Solender

Antitrust. 4 units. G.L. Priest 

Bankruptcy. 3 units. A.T. Kronman

Behavioral and Institutional Economics. 3 units. R. Shiller

Business Organizations. 4 units. R. Brooks

Business Organizations. 4 units. J.R. Macey

Capital Markets and Financial Instruments Regulation Clinic. 3 units. J.R. Macey and A. Schwartz

Capitalism Film Society. 2 units.  G.L. Priest 

Commercial Transactions. 3 units. G.E. Brunstad, Jr.

Community and Economic Development. 3 units. R. Golden, S.M. Hudspeth, C.F. Muckenfuss, L. Nadel and C. Stone

Corporate Governance: Seminar. 3 units. J.R. Macey

Corporate Restructuring and Distressed Debt Investing. 2 or 3 units. M. Paige

Corporate Taxation. 3 units. C. Kingson

Empirical Law and Economics. 4 units. J.J. Donohue

Federal Income Taxation. 4 units. Y. Listokin

Federal Income Taxation. 4 units. D. Markovits

Financial Accounting for Lawyers. 3 units. L. Schiffres

Insurance and Public Policy. 3 units. G.L. Priest

Intellectual Property. 4 units. I. Ayres    

International Business Transactions. 4 units. A. Chua

International Financial Crisis. 2 units. G. Fleming and J.R. Macey

International Investment Law I. 2 units. W.M. Reisman and G. Aguilar-Alvarez

Land Transactions. 3 units. Q. Johnstone

Law and Economics of Contracts I. 2 units. R.W. Brooks and A. Stremitzer 

Law and Economics of Contracts II. 2 units. R.W. Brooks and A. Stremitzer

Law, Economics, and Organization. 1 unit. R.W. Brooks and J.J. Donohue

Law, Economics, and Organization. 1 unit. R.W. Brooks and C. Jolls

[The] Law and Economics of Corporate Control. 3 units. A. Schwartz and S. Fraidin

Nonprofit Organizations Clinic. 1 or 2 units. J.G. Simon, L.N. Davis, and B.B. Lindsay

Quantitative Corporate Finance. 3 units. I. Ayres

Secured Transactions. 3 units. G.E. Brunstad, Jr.

Securities Regulation. 4 units. R.K. Winter

Selected Topics in Intellectual Property Law: Theory and Practice. 2 units. V.A. Cundiff

Specialized Legal Research: Corporate Law. 1 unit. S.B. Kauffman and Margaret Chisholm

Specialized Legal Research: Federal Tax Law. 1 unit. S.B. Kauffman and C. Tubbs

Trademarks and Unfair Competition. 3 units.  S.L. Carter

For further information on these and other courses at Yale Law School, view the Yale Law School Bulletin.