John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

About the Program

Many new lawyers learn business practices and culture the hard way — on the job. Others enroll in combined J.D.-MBA programs, requiring an additional year of study. Virginia offers a third way: The John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program, which builds a bridge between law school and the real problems encountered in business law practice. By integrating business and legal analysis into the law school classroom, the program better prepares students to serve their future clients from day one.

The program is designed for students aspiring to structure and negotiate business transactions, advise company directors and management, represent businesses in litigation and disputes, begin their careers in a corporate position, or serve in government regulatory agencies. The program educates students about the needs and goals of commercial and financial services clients, the concepts and skills needed to guide those clients, and the importance of problem-solving. Students who participate in the program gain experience with the sophisticated and challenging projects they will encounter in their careers.

The study of business law is intellectually engaging and challenging. It prompts us to evaluate the appropriate role of government regulation and mandatory legal rules versus private ordering, default rules and self-regulation. It raises questions about how legislatures and courts address the relationship of the profit motive and other community interests, and it requires consideration of the allocation of risk and responsibilities among private parties, and the conflicting needs and demands of those parties. It gives students an understanding of why businesses behave as they do and prepares students to advise clients about business plans that comply with the law and are socially responsible.

The Law & Business Program provides opportunities to all law students. It is not a separate “track” and does not lead to a separate degree or certificate or a combined J.D./MBA. Instead, the program provides a chance for all students to build skills that many employers are seeking.

The Duty of Creditors to Cooperate in Sovereign Debt Workouts

G. Mitu Gulati

Lee C. Buchheit

Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...

Academic Economic Espionage?

Elizabeth A. Rowe

In 2018 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Chinese espionage was occurring in university research labs, and the Department of Justice...

Nonparty Interests in Contract Law

Cathy Hwang

Omri Ben-Shahar

David A. Hoffman

Contract law has one overarching goal: to advance the legitimate interests of the contracting parties. For the most part, scholars, judges, and...

The Article III "Party" and the Originalist Case Against Corporate Diversity Jurisdiction

Lawrence B. Solum

Mark Moller

Federal courts control an outsize share of big-ticket corporate litigation. And that control rests, to a significant degree, on the Supreme Court’s...

Bounded Extraterritoriality

Michael S. Knoll

Ruth Mason

Politics in the United States is ever more divided, stymying federal legislation. States have responded to this political polarization and...

National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions

Kristen Eichensehr

Cathy Hwang

National security review of corporate transactions has long been a relatively sleepy corner of regulatory policy. But as governments merge economic...

Faculty Director

Jay Butler

Joseph W. Dorn Research Professor of Law

Director, John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Resident Faculty

Kenneth S. Abraham

Torts and insurance law

His torts treatise, "The Forms and Functions of Tort Law," has become a basic text for first-year law students across the country.
Leading insurance law scholar and author of the foremost casebook in the field
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the Council of the American Law Institute

Michal Barzuza

Corporate law and corporate finance

Received the John M. Olin Prize for outstanding S.J.D. dissertation in law and economics at Harvard Law School
Her article, "Market Segmentation: The Rise of Nevada as a Liability-Free Jurisdiction," was named among the 10 best corporate and securities law articles published in 2012, in an annual poll of corporate law professors conducted by Corporate Practice Commentator (Story)
Scholarship integrates law and finance (Scholarship Profile). Her article "What Happens in Nevada? Self-Selecting into Lax Law," was published in the Review of Financial Studies.

Quinn Curtis

Corporations, securities and real estate law; consumer financial markets

Ph.D. in economics, Yale University
Prior to law school, worked as a software engineer for Microsoft
Recent scholarship focuses on how law can help reform 401(k) plans (Faculty Q&A)

Michael Doran

Tax policy, legislative process and legal ethics

Former partner at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C., practicing federal tax and federal pension law
Served twice in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department
Recent scholarship challenges conventional theory of executive compensation, largesse of tax cuts for wealthiest Americans

John F. Duffy

Intellectual property, patents, administrative law

Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and for Judge Stephen Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Served as an attorney adviser in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel
In the field of intellectual property, Duffy has been identified as one of the 25 most-influential people in the nation by The American Lawyer and one of the 50 most influential people in the world by the U.K. publication Managing Intellectual Property. He was named a legal “visionary” by the Legal Times in 2009 and has been profiled in Businessweek.

Joshua Fischman

Law and economics, quantitative methods/statistics in the law

Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
His research interests include law and economics, empirical methods, judicial decision-making and criminal sentencing

Kim Forde-Mazrui

Race and law, constitutional law, employment discrimination

Clerked for Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Served for seven years as inaugural director of the UVA Center for the Study of Race and Law
Scholarship focuses on equal protection, especially involving race and sexual orientation (Faculty Q&A)

Andrew Hayashi

Tax law and policy, behavioral economics

Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Berkeley; M.Sc. in economics and philosophy from the London School of Economics
Hayashi's research on "tax salience" — meaning how visible a tax is — showed a correlation between higher salience and a higher number of appeals of property tax assessments
Serves as a McDonald Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

Cathy Hwang

Corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and deals

Research focuses on business law, including corporate contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance
Articles have twice been named among the top 10 corporate and securities articles of the year
Practiced in M&A at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York

Rich Hynes

Bankruptcy and consumer finance law

Ph.D. in economics, University of Pennsylvania
Practiced law with Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Los Angeles
Hynes focuses on parallel systems outside of bankruptcy that handle debtor-creditor relations, including the use of state courts to collect debts. (Scholarship Profile)

Edmund W. Kitch

Corporate law and securities, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation and history

Was special assistant to the solicitor general of the United States and executive director of the Civil Aeronautics Board Committee on Procedural Reform
Was a member of the Committee on Public-Private Sector Interactions in Vaccine Innovation of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1983-85)
Co-authored books include "Selected Statutes and International Agreements on Unfair Competition, Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents" and "Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition"

Kevin Cope

Law and economics, international relations, international law, immigration and refugee law, judging

Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Michigan (expected 2019)
Created the first judicial ideology measure covering every Article III judge in the federal judiciary
Currently working to develop a method that could help international treaty negotiators achieve global-welfare-increasing cooperation
Clerked for three federal judges, including Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practiced government enforcement litigation law in Washington, D.C., with Skadden, Arps

Alex M. Johnson Jr.

Contracts, property and real estate; critical race theory

Former Dean the University of Minnesota Law School
Lectures and writes on the LSAT and academic standards, and has argued both in favor of the continued use of affirmative action in law school admittance as well as the continued use of the LSAT as an objective measure for considering students (Faculty Q&A)
Served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Law School Admissions Council and the LSAC's Test, Development and Research, and Minority Affairs Standing Committees

Kevin A. Kordana

Contracts and corporations, nonprofit organizations, bankruptcy

Clerked for Chief Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Scholarly interests include bankruptcy and law and economics issues
Expert on nonprofits

Michael A. Livermore

Environmental law and climate change, administrative law

Clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Founding executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law
Co-authored "Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health." The book became the foundation for a new approach public interest organizations could take in arguing for policies to protect the environment. (Faculty Q&A on related scholarship)

Julia D. Mahoney

Property, corporations and land conservation, nonprofit organizations

Has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Chicago Law School
Scholarly articles include works on land preservation, eminent domain, health care reform and property rights in human biological materials
Practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Paul G. Mahoney

Corporations, securities regulation, contracts

Former Dean of the Law School (2008-16)
Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Worked on legal reform projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Nepal

Thomas B. Nachbar

Constitutional law, antitrust and communications regulation, national security

Clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Practiced with what is now Mayer Brown in Chicago
Is a U.S. Army Reserve judge advocate, and was a principal editor and contributor for the first three editions of "The Rule of Law Handbook: A Practitioners’ Guide" (2007-09)
Before he went to law school, Nachbar spent five years as a systems analyst, working for both Andersen Consulting and Hughes Space and Communications.

Dotan Oliar

Intellectual property, law and economics

Clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court after earning his law degree at Tel Aviv University
Served as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Olin Center for Law and Economics
Has presented in several fora, including the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum; the annual meetings of the American, Canadian and European law and economics associations; and the intellectual property scholars conference. (Story)

George Rutherglen

Employment discrimination, civil rights and admiralty, civil procedure and international civil litigation

Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices William O. Douglas and John Paul Stevens, and forJudge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Chaired the advisory committee on Fourth Circuit Rules
Rutherglen's book, "Civil Rights in the Shadow of Slavery," discusses the dynamics of legislative and judicial enforcement over the entire history of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. (Story)

Paul B. Stephan

International law, business and economics

Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and for Judge Levin Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Has taught extensively abroad (Story)
Worked on a variety of projects involving law reform in former socialist states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, including Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Albania and Slovakia on behalf of the U.S. Treasury, and in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan on behalf of the International Monetary Fund
Helped win case against Russian government's seizure of oil company (Story)
Is the coordinating reporter on the Fourth Restatement, providing guidance on foreign relations law (Story)

Pierre-Hugues Verdier

International law and business, financial regulation

Practiced corporate and financial law with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York City
Is one of five Canadians to be awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law since 1950
Writes on the international regulation of banking and securities markets, the law of foreign state immunity, and the application of international law in domestic courts around the world

J. H. Verkerke

Employment law and discrimination, contracts, contract theory, law and economics

M.Phil. in economics, Yale University
A pioneer in the use of technology in the classroom, won a $10,000 Hybrid Challenge Grant for Technology-Enhanced Teaching to convert his first-semester Contracts course into flipped classroom model of instruction (Story)
Author of an open-source Contracts casebook published by the CALI eLangdell Press. (Link)
Recent scholarship focuses on information-forcing rules in contracts and on vicarious liability for employee torts
In 2013, began an empirical study of law school teaching practices and how they affect student experiences and outcomes

Steven D. Walt

Contracts, sales/commercial paper, legal philosophy, bankruptcy and secured transactions

Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy, University of Chicago
Has received several academic awards, including a Whiting National Fellowship in the Humanities
Co-author of two popular casebooks, "Secured Transactions in Personal Property" and "Payments and Credits"

Ethan Yale

Tax policy, tax shelters, federal taxation

Clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Research and teaching emphasizes the taxation of business entities and complex transactions
Received the Law School’s Carl McFarland Prize for outstanding research (Story)
Selected to present at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

Ruth Mason

State, international taxation and policy

National reporter for the United States to the 2008 IFA Congress on tax discrimination and the 2014 European Associate Tax Law Professors Congress on tax information exchange
Co-editor of Kluwer's "Series on International Taxation" and a member of the editorial board of the World Tax Journal
Mason's research focuses on comparative taxation, with an emphasis on EU tax law.
Amicus brief cited by U.S. Supreme Court in Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne.
Has a four-part special report on EU state aids forthcoming in Tax Notes

Kimberly D. Krawiec

Securities, corporate and derivatives law, taboo markets

Corporate law expert teaches courses on securities, corporate and derivatives law
A leading thinker on forbidden or contested markets like organ donation
Prior to academia, practiced in the Commodity & Derivatives Group at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York

G. Mitu Gulati

Sovereign debt

Focuses on sovereign debt restructuring and contracts, and explores how to help countries in financial distress
Co-hosts the podcast “Clauses and Controversies,” is a contributor to the blog Creditslips.org, and serves as regional editor for the journal Capital Markets Law Journal
His work on contracts frequently addresses their often-unexpected nature, and he has questioned the assumption that parties fully understand the provisions and outcomes of deals
Has also written on “odious debts” — whether debts made by preceding regimes, such as that of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, should always be honored by future governments

Jay Butler

International law, corporations, contracts, corporate social responsibility

His scholarship has been recognized with the Lieber Prize and Francis Deák Prize
In addition to a J.D. from Yale, received a B.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University while studying jurisprudence
Clerked for Judges Hisashi Owada and Giorgio Gaja of the International Court of Justice and worked as a legal adviser to the government of Japan

George S. Geis

Business law, contract theory, mergers and acquisitions

Research focuses on problems related to contract theory, business alliances, shareholder litigation and other issues involving the intersection of law and business
Spent five years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., where he served clients on corporate strategy, mergers and marketing; also worked with a New York and a Los Angeles law firmCo-author of a book on business partnership and alliance strategies
Taught courses as a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and the University of Trento in Italy

Michael D. Gilbert

Legislation, election law, law and economics, and direct democracy

Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Scholarship applies economic analysis to election law and constitutional design
Clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The first law professor to receive the UVA Student Council Distinguished Teaching Award

John C. Harrison

Administrative law, constitutional law and history

Clerked for Judge Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Served as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (2008)
Worked with the Department of Justice in numerous capacities, including deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel (1990-93)
A text-based interpreter of the Constitution, in 2009 Harrison testified before Congress about the legality and powers of the White House policy advisers referred to as "czars."

Other Faculty

Evan Bruno

Polly A. Clark

Richard N. Dean

Thomas R. Denison

John Dienelt

Robert B. Duncan

Athena Velie Eastwood

Harry Franks

Lawrence R. Fullerton

Nestor Gounaris

Peter S. Kaufman

Rahul Keshap

Roger H. Kimmel

Caroline Klosko

Mike Lincoln

R. Lee Livingston

Rob C. Masri

Pamela Rosen

Ellen Catherine Bognar

Maynard L. Sipe

Gregory A. Smith

Richard F. Smith

Kenneth Starling

Adam Trost

Brian Vella

Derrick L. Walker

Barney Wilson

Robert Zack

Justin Hopkins

Caroline Stanton

Kevin Clayton

Carine Saddy

Michael C. Williams

Kelly Salzmann

Mark F. Mendelsohn

L. Gilles Sion

Abraham Sutherland

George K. Martin

Jim Donovan

Arthur D. Robinson

Pierre-Emmanuel Audit

Peter D. Lyons

Charles A. Gilman

Bill Porter

Megan T. Stevenson

Criminal law and criminal procedure

Economist and criminal justice scholar focused on criminal justice reform, including bail, algorithmic risk assessment, misdemeanors and juvenile justice
Research on bail cited extensively in a landmark federal civil rights decision, O’Donnell v. Harris, and in the media
Holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley

Courses

The following is a list of courses offered during the current and two previous academic years. Numbers in parentheses indicate which academic year(s) the courses were offered, i.e., 2020-21 is coded (21), 2021-2022 is coded (22) and 2022-23 is coded (23).

See a Sample Course Schedule

Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (21)
Admiralty (SC) (21,22)
Advanced Contracts (22)
Advising Boards of Directors (Public and Private Equity) Under Siege (SC) (21,22,23)
Agency, Partnership and the LLC (21,22,23)
Airline Industry and Aviation Law (21,22,23)
Antitrust (23)
Antitrust in the Digital Economy (SC) (21,22)
Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment (21,22,23)
Banking and Financial Institutions (21,22,23)
Bankruptcy (21,23)
Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (21,22,23)
BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law (21,22,23)
Blood Feud (SC) (23)
Business and Governmental Tort Liability (21,22,23)
Business Planning (21,22,23)
Business Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (22)
Commercial Sales Transactions: Domestic and International (23)
Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations (22,23)
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (21,22,23)
Construction Law (21,23)
Copyright Law (21,22,23)
Corporate Finance (21,22,23)
Corporate Governance New Paradigm – Shareholder Activism (21)
Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery (SC) (23)
Corporate Social Responsibility (SC) (21)
Corporate Social Responsibility Seminar (22)
Corporate Strategy (SC) (22)
Corporate Transactions: Startup to Exit (SC) (21,22)
Corporations (21,22,23)
Corporations (Law & Business) (21,22,23)
Corporations, Investors and ESG (21,22,23)
Critical Perspectives in Business Law (22)
Cryptocurrency Law and Policy (SC) (22,23)
Cryptocurrency Regulation (SC) (21)
Current Issues in Corporate Law and Governance (21)
Deals (21,23)
Derivatives Markets and Their Regulations (22)
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice
(21,22,23)
Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (22,23)
Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (SC)
(21,22,23)
Federal Regulation of Investment Companies (SC) (21,22,23)
Financial Crime: Risks, Risk Management and Compliance (SC) (23)
Franchise Law (21,23)
Global Business and International Corruption (SC) (21,22,23)
Government Contract Law (21,22,23)
Inside the Boardroom (SC) (21,22,23)
Insurance (21,22)
International Arbitration (22)
International Business Negotiation (21,23)
International Business Transactions (21,22)
International Civil Litigation (20,21)
International Debt Transactions (22,23)
International Trade and Investment (21)
International Trade Law and Policy (22,23)
Internet Law (21,22,23)
Introduction to Law and Business (21,22)
Israeli Business Law and Innovation (SC) (23)
Law of Public-Private Partnerships (21,22,23)
LawTech (21,22,23)
Leadership and Team Management (SC) (23)
Legal Issues in Corporate Finance (Law & Business) (22)
Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (SC) (21,22,23)
Liability Insurance Law (21,23)
Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law (21,22,23)
Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits (SC) (21,22,23)
Mergers and Acquisitions (21,22,23)
Modern Real Estate (21,22,23)
Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (SC) (21,22,23)
Nonprofit Organizations (21,22,23)
Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (21,22,23)
Patent Law (22)
Privacy (21,22,23)
Personal Data Protection in Europe (SC) (23)
Quantitative Methods (21,22)
Real Estate Transactions and Litigation (21,22)
Regulatory Law and Policy (21,22,23)
Repugnant Transactions (22,23)
Secured Transactions (21,22,23)
Securities Litigation and Enforcement (21,22,23)
Securities Regulation (21,22,23)
Securities Regulation (Law & Business) (21,22,23)
Startup of a Medtech Company (SC) (21,22,23)
Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (21,22,23)
The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation (SC) (21,22,23)
Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (SC) (21,22,23)
Topics in Public Equity Investing (SC) (21,22,23)
Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions (21,22,23)
Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation (22,23)
Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (SC) (21,22,23)

CLINICS

Advanced Community Solutions Clinic (22,23)
Community Solutions Clinic (22,23)
Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (YR) (21,22,23)
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (21,22,23)
Nonprofit Clinic (YR) (21,22,23)

Curriculum

Students can take advantage of an extensive set of curricular opportunities that allow them the flexibility to sample according to their interests or dive deep.

Business Methods and Skills
Core Business Law Courses
Enhanced Core Law & Business Courses
Advanced Courses
Sample Course Schedule
J.D.-M.B.A. Program
Frequently Asked Questions

Business Methods and Skills

For students without a background in basic finance, accounting or other business methods, courses taught by UVA’s business and law faculty lay a foundation for understanding the corporate world. They include Accounting and Corporate Finance, Corporate Strategy and other classes focused on business skills.

Core Business Law Courses

Core business law courses include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Bankruptcy, Employment, Environmental Law, Income Tax, Antitrust and Intellectual Property.

Enhanced Core Law & Business Courses

Students who have taken the introductory Accounting and Corporate Finance course or who have equivalent experience are eligible to take enhanced versions of core Law & Business courses that incorporate finance and quantitative concepts. These typically include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Secured Transactions, Corporate Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions, which are often taught by resident faculty members with graduate degrees in economics or finance.

Sample Course Schedule

First Year

FALL
Civil Procedure* (4 credits)
Contracts* (4)
Criminal Law* (3)
Legal Writing* (1)
Torts* (4)

SPRING
Constitutional Law* (4)
Legal Writing* (1)
Property* (4)
Corporate Finance (2)
Accounting (2)
Other Elective

* REQUIRED first-year curriculum

Second Year

FALL
Corporations
Securities Regulation (or spring semester)
Federal Income Tax
Administrative Law
Corporate Strategy
Negotiation Institute

SPRING
Bankruptcy
Secured Transactions
Intellectual Property, such as Survey of Patent, Copyright and Trademark
Antitrust

Other possibilities:
Employment or Labor Law, Banking, Environmental Law, Teamwork

Third Year

If you have a good idea of your interests or the areas of law in which you would like to practice, you should start to concentrate on more advanced courses in those areas, such as transactions, tax, securities, intellectual property, international or litigation. A list of courses recently offered is at the Curriculum and Advanced Courses website pages. Otherwise, select a mix of advanced courses from the transaction, litigation and regulatory areas.

Possibilities include:
Current Issues in Corporate Law
M&A
Real Estate Transactions
Advanced Topics in Securities Law
Private Equity and Hedge Funds
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
Finance of Small Enterprises
Legal Issues in Corporate Finance
White Collar Criminal Defense
International Civil Litigation
Federal Regulation of Investment Companies
International Finance
International Tax
International Patent Law
Patent Clinic

Courses

See a Sample Course Schedule

CLINICS

Advanced Courses

Typically offered in small seminar settings, advanced courses prepare students for real-world situations and teach students how to use the law to find constructive solutions to business problems. Top practitioners from law firms, business and government, as well as UVA faculty, engage students in hands-on exercises, such as deal-structuring, negotiating and counseling.

The following is a list of courses offered during the current and two previous academic years. Numbers in parentheses indicate which academic year(s) the courses were offered, i.e., 2018-19 is coded (19), 2019-2020 is coded (20) and 2020-21 is coded (21).

Courses in recent years include:

ANTITRUST IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY (21,22), taught by Christopher Hockett ’85, a former litigation partner in Davis Polk’s Northern California office and global head of the firm’s antitrust practice.

THE CORPORATE LAW OF HBO’S “SUCCESSION” (22), taught by Professor Cathy Hwang and Peter Lyons, a legal consultant for the show. Lyons also teaches TRANSACTIONAL APPROACH TO MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (21,22,23).

CORPORATE STRATEGY (22) and LEADERSHIP AND TEAM MANAGEMENT (23), taught by Jim Donovan, a managing director of Goldman Sachs.

COURSES ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS that examine legal and regulatory structures affecting foreign investors seeking to participate in the development of “emerging markets,” taught by UVA Law professor Paul Stephan and Richard Dean, an experienced practitioner.

FINANCIAL CRIMES: RISKS, RISK MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE (23), taught by Susan Merchant ’94, who has worked as a compliance officer in global banking institutions around the world.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS NEGOTIATION (21,23), taught by Kenneth Starling, a retired DLA Piper partner and former official in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division

LEGAL PRACTICE AND THE STARTUP COMPANY: AN INSIDE LOOK (21,22,23), taught by Professor Quinn Curtis and entrepreneur and lawyer Rob Masri '96.

FEDERAL REGULATION OF INVESTMENT COMPANIES (21,22,23), taught by Robert Zack ’75, former general counsel of Oppenheimer Funds.

TOPICS IN PUBLIC EQUITY INVESTING (21,22,23), taught by Barney Wilson, founder and portfolio manager of Robious Capital

All Current Courses

Beyond the Curriculum

Students interested in business law have access to a variety of extracurricular activities.

The Virginia Law & Business Review is one of only a few student-edited business law journals among top law schools. The review holds a conference on a current business topic each year.
The Virginia Law & Business Society sponsors a variety of academic, professional and social activities for students interested in careers in law and business.
Rivanna Investments is a student organization dedicated to learning the art of intelligent investing. It manages an investment portfolio.

The Law School also hosts speakers and conferences on business topics throughout the year, as well as an annual entrepreneurship competition (part of a broader UVA competition) with a cash prize.

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Courses

CLINICS

Curriculum

Business Methods and Skills

Core Business Law Courses

Enhanced Core Law & Business Courses

Sample Course Schedule

First Year

Second Year

Third Year

Courses

CLINICS

Advanced Courses

Courses in recent years include:

Beyond the Curriculum

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Recent Events

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John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Courses

CLINICS

Recent Events

Insights on Teaching Race in Business Law

Friday, Feb. 5 1 p.m. EST

A Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & Finance

Friday, Feb. 19 1 p.m. EST

Friday, Feb. 5
1 p.m. EST

Friday, Feb. 19
1 p.m. EST