It’s all about competition. Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs demand practice-ready skills. Our Business Law Center emphasizes financial management, business development tactics and cross-cultural business and law practices. Our teams of law and business students test their skills against teams from top U.S. and Canadian law schools in the International Business Law Case Competition each year.
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Business and Law Colloquium
Our Business and Law Colloquium regularly convenes prominent attorneys, business leaders and law students to explore cutting-edge business law issues and to develop corporate leadership skills. This colloquium is a capstone and highlight of many law students' programs at the law school.
Compete Across Borders
Test your skills in the annual International Business Law Case Competition: Four-person teams of two law and two business school students compete against law schools from across the U.S. and Canada.
Comprehensive Curriculum
Our adjunct faculty includes seasoned corporate attorneys practicing in Cleveland and beyond, offering a real-world approach. Recent courses include:
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Business Associations
- Corporate Finance
- E-payments
- Federal Taxation of Corporations & Partnerships
- Franchise Law
- International Business Transactions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate Transactions and Finance
- Securities Regulation
- Venture Finance and Transactions
Summer Externships
Business law students pursue summer externships from their first summer onward. Among their recent postings:
- Federal Trade Commission
- Internal Revenue Service
- OnX Canada
- Parker Hannifin
Business Law Center
Under the leadership of Juliet P. Kostritsky, Everett D. & Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor of Contract Law and director of the Business Law Center, we bring leading policy experts to Cleveland through the annual Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture. Started in 1981, the lecture has featured numerous federal judges, scholars, academics and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices.