BUSINESS LAW and FINANCIAL SERVICES CONCENTRATION:

LEGAL WRITING REQUIREMENT

Legal Writing Requirement

All Concentration students must satisfy the Concentration's legal writing requirement in one of the following manners:

• With a paper which meets the standards of the Law School's legal writing requirement, and has been written for an approved Business Law and Financial Services Concentration course or as part of a Directed Study project with a full time faculty member;

• With a law journal piece or moot court brief whose subject matter comes within the scope of a Concentration course, and has been approved by the Faculty Director of the Concentration; or

• With a Concentration Thesis which has been written under the supervision of a full time faculty member on a business law or financial services topic, and has been approved by the Faculty Director of the Concentration. 

The Thesis

Business Law and Financial Services Concentration students who opt to write a Thesis must create a work of publishable quality under the direction of a full-time member of the Law School faculty. The standards applied to the Thesis are beyond those applied to satisfaction of the Law School's legal writing requirement.

The Thesis must be begun no later than the second to last semester of Law School.  Arrangements for faculty supervision and topic approval, as well as significant work on the project, should be initiated at least three semesters before anticipated graduation. Thesis topics must be approved by Business Law and Financial Services Faculty Director and the supervising resident faculty member. Two (2) course credits will be awarded for the successful completion of the Thesis.

Students who successfully complete a Thesis and have completed all other Concentration requirements will receive the Business Law and Financial Services Concentration certificate with Distinction, and have this so noted on their final Law School transcripts.