Banking and Commercial Law - The concentration in Banking and Commercial Law exposes the student to a number of topics within the scope of the uniform commercial code, consumer transactions, banking law, business reorganization, creditors’ and debtors’ rights, and bankruptcy. Faculty
Coordinators: Prof. Ralph Rohner and Prof. Heidi Schooner
View list of courses with descriptions
Communications Law - The concentration in Communications Law provides special expertise in the regulation of the telecommunications industry, electronic mass media, wireless telecommunications services, and digital technologies, FCC practice and procedure, intellectual property transactions, copyright and patent, First Amendment challenges for media. Faculty Coordinators: Prof. David A. Irwin and Prof. Susanna Fischer
View list of courses with descriptions
Securities Law – The Securities Law concentration supplies the student with depth of background in a broad array of topics arising out of the law of securities regulation including the regulation of issuance of securities, secondary trading of securities, market regulation, enforcement issues, corporate finance, investment companies and investment advisers, derivatives and the regulation of financial institutions. Faculty Coordinator: Prof. David A. Lipton
View list of courses with descriptions
Trusts and Estates - The concentration in Estate Planning Law provides the student with knowledge in the law of inheritance, wills, trusts, the inter vivos and testamentary transfer of wealth, pensions, family law, federal taxation of wealth transfers, and estate planning. Faculty Coordinator: Prof. Raymond O’Brien
View list of courses with descriptions
Comparative and International Law - The concentration in Comparative and International Law offers the student a program of study in comparative constitutional law, comparative legal history, comparative legal systems, comparative trade law, comparative military law, national security law, European law, maritime law, public international law, international trade law, international business transactions, international intellectual property law, international arbitration and mediation law, international civil litigation, international criminal law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international environmental law. Given the breadth and depth of the CUA Law international curriculum, students may elect sub-concentrations in several areas. Faculty Coordinators: Prof. Geoff Watson and Prof. Michael Noone
View list of courses with descriptions
Jurisprudence - The concentration in Jurisprudence provides an opportunity to advance a deeper understanding of the philosophy of law, the natural law tradition, theories of legislation, Catholic social thought, sources of Christian thought on law, contemporary social issues in Jewish law, Islamic law, history of canon law, history of European law, history of American law, and law and literature. Students may fulfill some credits through cross-registration in the courses offered in the University’s Schools of Philosophy, Arts & Sciences, Theology and Religious Studies, and Canon Law. Faculty Coordinator: Prof. William J. Wagner
View list of courses with descriptions |
