Business and Transactional Law, Graduate Certificate
View ChecksheetOverall GPA - Combined and OU: 8.00
Minimum Total Hours: 22
Program Code: G024
The Business and Transactional Law Graduate Certificate is suited for students who wish to enter a transactional and business counseling practice. Required and elective business law classes are the backbone of this program, which also includes training in business drafting and writing.
Certificate Requirements
Full-time JD degree-candidate OU Law students are eligible to receive the certificate at graduation conditioned upon the successful completion of the requirements outlined below.
Section A
- At least 17 credit hours must be chosen from Section A.
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
---|---|---|
Core | ||
LAW 5434 | Business Associations | 3-4 |
or LAW 5433 | Corporations | |
Guided Electives | ||
Choose at least one of the following regulation of business courses: | 3 | |
Antitrust Law | ||
Business Tax | ||
Federal Securities Regulation | ||
Choose at least two of the following business courses (excluding any course chosen to satisfy another requirement): | 2-4 | |
Choose at least one of the following experiential courses: | 2-3 | |
Choose at least one of the following related courses from the J.D. menu classes: | 2-4 | |
Total Credit Hours | 17-18 |
Section B1
Students must earn a grade of B or higher in each of the following business courses. The credit earned in these courses cannot be counted toward the 90 hours required for the J.D.
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
---|---|---|
B AD 5001 | Quantitative Methods and Modeling I | 1 |
ACCT 5202 | Financial Accounting | 2 |
MGT 5702 | Organizational Behavior | 2 |
Total Credit Hours | 5 |
- 1
One or more of these three courses may be satisfied by having received a grade of B or higher in an undergraduate course covering substantially the same material or in a graduate course completed prior to or contemporaneously with the Juris Doctor Degree, in each case with the approval of the Associate dean for Academic Affairs.
Business Courses1
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
---|---|---|
LAW 5703 | Antitrust Law | 3 |
LAW 5410 | Bankruptcy | 4 |
LAW 6820 | Business Tax | 3 |
LAW 5712 | Corporate Drafting | 2 |
LAW 5720 | 2-3 | |
LAW 5753 | Federal Securities Regulation | 3 |
LAW 6213 | Intellectual Property Survey | 3 |
LAW 6040 | International Business Transactions | 2-3 |
LAW 5763 | Mergers and Acquisitions | 3 |
LAW 5740 | Payment Systems | 2-3 |
LAW 6570 | Real Estate Transactions | 2-3 |
LAW 5750 | Secured Transactions | 3 |
LAW 5713 | Transactional Law Practicum I: Business Combinations | 3 |
LAW 5743 | Transactional Law Practicum II: Law of Innovation | 3 |
LAW 5733 | Unincorporated Business Entities | 3 |
LAW 6100 | Selected Legal Problems (International Business & Human Rights) | 3 |
LAW 6100 | Selected Legal Problems (Nonprofit Organizations) | 3 |
- 1
Exclude any course chosen to satisfy another requirement
Experiential Courses
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
---|---|---|
LAW 5713 | Transactional Law Practicum I: Business Combinations | 3 |
LAW 5743 | Transactional Law Practicum II: Law of Innovation | 3 |
LAW 5712 | Corporate Drafting | 2 |
LAW 6400 | Selected Legal Problems of Applied Nature (Externship- 3-12 hours which has been pre-approved by the Director of Externships and the Associate Dean of Academics for the Certificate) | 3 |
J.D. Menu Classes
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
---|---|---|
LAW 5410 | Bankruptcy | 4 |
LAW 5463 | Income Taxation of Individuals | 3 |
LAW 6570 | Real Estate Transactions | 3 |
LAW 5750 | Secured Transactions | 3 |