Legal Methods II: Financial Methods for Lawyers
Course Information
- Course Number
- L6130
- Curriculum Level
- Foundation
- Areas of Study
- Lawyering
- Type
- Lecture
- Additional Attributes
- Experiential Credit
Section 001 Information
Instructors

Section Description
This one-week course provides a brief (yet immersive) overview of the intersection between the fields of financial valuation and law—an intersection that has grown increasingly strong within a variety of contexts including: contracts, torts, property, family law, mergers and acquisitions, securities litigation, corporate governance, shareholder litigation and intellectual property. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding for the techniques that financial economists have developed over the last half century to address "real world" problems concerning valuation. This course is intended as an introduction to financial valuation for students who are otherwise unacquainted with it. It will not be as broad as a more immersive course in corporate finance (which some of you may choose later to take). There are no prerequisites; however, the course assumes students are willing to push themselves to deploy mathematical formulas (including basic algebra), elementary statistics and Excel. If you have already taken a course in financial valuation or corporate finance, this course may be too basic for you.
- School Year & Semester
- January 2022
- Dates
- January 10 - January 14
- Location
- JGH 107
- Schedule
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Class meets on
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Dates
- January 10 - January 14
- Location
- JGH 107
- Schedule
-
Class meets on
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Points
- 1
- J.D Writing Credit?
- No
Learning Outcomes
- Primary
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- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in transactional design and value creation
Course Limitations
- Instructor Pre-requisites
- None
- Instructor Co-Requisites
- None
- Recommended Courses
- None
- Other Limitations
- For JDs only.