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Social Entrepreneurship and Law

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Requirements:

15 credits from the​ following courses and additional experiential credits:

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  • Business Law Survey
    Credits: 2
    This course surveys various areas of law that are important to businesses and their advisors, including: choosing the correct form of business entity, including tax and governance issues;licenses and permits; raising capital through equity and loans; business insurance; employment law; employee benefits; development and protection of intellectual property;and securities law issues. Paper course.
    Auditing allowed; Paper can be used for writing requirement. Faculty approval.

    Pratt, David

  • Business Organizations
    Credits: 4

    ​Discusses formation and organization of basic business organizations. Examines structure, finance, management, and control of business enterprises; rights and liabilities of owners, fiduciaries, and third parties; shareholder informational rights, shareholder suits and issuance of shares; and introduces problems of close corporations and state statutory and administrative regulations.

    Redwood, James D.

    Chung, Christine Sgarlata

    Reyhan, Patricia

    Pratt, David

  • Poverty Law
    Credits: 2

    This survey course will cover historical and contemporary policy debates about poverty in the U.S. Topics will include the constitutional treatment of poverty, as well as the legal and policy treatment of questions of access to specific social goods, such as housing, healthcare, education, and legal services. We will also discuss "hot topics" in the field, such as criminalization of poverty, international perspectives on poverty, wage theft, immigration and access to justice. Materials will include practice-derived materials, contemporary commentary as well as scholarly treatment of the issues. Students with a range of backgrounds and perspectives on the issues are encouraged to enroll.

    Rogerson, Sarah F.

  • The Law of Social Entrepreneurship and Exempt Organizations
    Credits: 4

    This course would expand upon a course previously offered at the law school that covers both the federal and state law covering exempt organizations, but will expand to cover the law of corporate formation as it might otherwise affect social entrepreneurs, including covering Benefit Corporations, Limited Liability Corporations and other basic corporate forms. It will also cover the law of exempt organization and Benefit Corporation finance.

    Brescia, Raymond H.

Electives:

At least three credits from the following electives:

  • Business Basics for Lawyers
    Credits: 3

    Introduces the field and discipline of financial accounting. This course seeks to acquaint the non-financial student with the general purposes of accounting and the role of independent accountants in business and society. Intended for lawyers who have a non-financial background, the student will be introduced to the mechanics and terminology of financial accounting and will learn the basic principles and procedures of accountancy in the preparation of financial statements. With this foundation, the student will learn the purpose behind each of the individual financial statements and how to analyze and interpret the financial statements.​​

    Boll, Jennifer, Esq.

  • International Organizations
    Credits: 3

    ​This course will address modern forms of international law-making and regulations, as well as enforcement and dispute settlement, emphasizing especially the impact of institutions. It will examine how intergovernmental or international organizations, from those of the UN system to the World Trade Organization (WTO), have changed the traditional sources of international obligation, namely treaties, customary international law, and general principles.

    Harrington, Dr. Alexandra R.

Experiential Requirement:

Participation in at least one of the​ following experiential programs:​

Field Placement or SIP related to Social Entrepreneurship, including related and existing clinical offerings, including Entrepreneurship Law in Emerging Technologies.

Writing Requirement:

Students are required to complete one significant piece of writing in the concentration area. The writing requirement does not require that students earn any credits beyond the required credits described above. The topic and the arrangement for fulfilling the writing requirement, however, must be approved in advance by the Concentration Advisor. The paper could be written to fulfill the requirements of a course, an independent study, or a law journal note and comment. It may also be possible to fulfill this requirement by completing a substantial piece of writing in conjunction with an experiential course, clinic, or Field Placement, such as a brief, a series of Motions, or a significant legal memorandum. It could also be fulfilled by writing a paper independently, such as a submission to a writing competition or an article for publication. In all of these arrangements, the prior approval of the Concentration Advisor is required.

(Effective December 18, 2018)

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