SLP Curricular Requirements
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Candidates of the Securities Law Program may select from the following options to satisfy the requirements of the certificate program:
Heavy Course, One Externship Standard - must enroll in the three required courses, three elective courses, two co-curricular courses, and complete one externship for 3 credits while concurrently enrolled in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer or SEC Student Observer Program.
Light Course, Two Externships Standard - must enroll in three required courses, two elective courses, two co-curricular courses, and complete two externships, at least one of which must be for three credits while concurrently enrolled in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork or SEC Student Observer Program.
Required Courses
Corporations
Securities Regulation: Issuance
Securities Regulation: Trading
Electives (either two or three required)
Securities Markets Regulation Seminar
Securities Regulation: Derivatives and Their Markets
Securities Regulation: Enforcement Procedures and Issues
Securities Regulation: Investment Company and Investment Advisers Acts
Corporate Finance Seminar
Securities Transactional Work in Securitization of Assets
Securities Regulation: Private Equity and Hedge
Co-Curricular Courses (two required)
Advanced Issues in Corporate Law
Antitrust
Banking Law
Bankruptcy
Commercial Transactions
Corporate Tax
Financial Institutions Regulation
International Business Transactions
Law and Public Policy
Legal Accounting
Unincorporated Business Organizations
White Collar and Business Crimes
EXTERNSHIP REQUIREMENTS
Students must complete either one or two externships, depending on course load. Each student must consult with the Director before undertaking to select an externship and must obtain approval from the Director for each field placement or clinical course proposed to satisfy one of the experiential learning requirements.
If a student’s employment or other obligations preclude enrollment in a clinical or internship experience to accompany the Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, the Director may authorize a student to substitute non-credit (paid) work experience for clinical or internship work. Such substitution may be authorized for only one of the two experiential learning requirements, only if the non-credit work experience is contemporaneous with the seminar for which the substitution is authorized, and only if the non-credit work experience involves the student in the development of securities regulations.
WRITING REQUIREMENT
To receive a certificate in Securities Law, students must complete a writing requirement. There are four ways to achieve this.
- A major paper may be written as part of the coursework needed for the Securities Law certificate.
- A two-credit Directed Research project may be conducted on a Securities-related issue. (The Director must approve the paper topic in advance.)
- A securities regulation-related note or comment may be submitted for publication.
- Participation in the Securities Moot Court team competition in the Spring may also qualify for the writing requirement, as determined by the Director in consultation with the Securities Moot Court Administrator(s).
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
All certificate program candidates need to complete two terms of either (i) participation in the moot court competition (see writing component above); (ii) making meaningful contributions of SLSA, or (iii) coordinating the securities lecture program or the mentor-mentee program for one year. In addition, all certificate candidates are required to maintain an active membership in SLSA (attending meetings and mentor-mentee gatherings, assisting at orientation events) and are expected to be able to certify that they attended at least one half of the lectures presented annually by the Securities Law Program and/or SLSA. Each certificate applicant will be responsible for keeping a record of completion of the required co-curricular activities, which will be presented to the Institute Office for verification.
GPA REQUIREMENTS
To earn a certificate, students must graduate in the top half of their class and must have a 3.10 GPA overall in their Securities and Co-Curricular coursework.
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