For a complete list of course offerings in Commercial Law and Advanced Contracts, including full descriptions and faculty who will be teaching the offerings in 2008-2009, refer to the online Curriculum Guide.
Columbia Law School offers a wide selection of courses and seminars in the area of commercial law and advanced contracts, as befits its location in the commercial capital of the United States and its long history of training lawyers to perform leading roles in the business and transactional worlds. The Law School's curriculum in this area can be divided into three major categories. First, students can select from a number of offerings that study the regulation and design of particular types of commercial transactions; these include the courses on Bankruptcy, Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy, Payment Systems, Real Estate Transactions, and Secured Transactions, as well as the general course in Commercial Transactions, which offers a one-semester survey of many of these particular topics, with the particular combination varying from year to year. This category also includes several courses that focus on international commercial arrangements, including International Commercial Contracts and International Financial Transactions.
Second, several courses focus on broader concepts and skills such as transactional planning that are implicated across the range of business environments. These offerings include Deals, Financial Statement Analysis and Interpretation and the Deals Workshop, which is taught by leading practitioners in cooperation with Columbia faculty and which is offered in several small sections.
Third, the curriculum includes a large variety of seminars that focus on specialized areas of commercial practice, many of which, due to their cutting-edge subject matter, are also taught by leading transactional practitioners.
