Curriculum

• Foundation Courses (required in second year)
  LAW 220

  Introduction to Federal Income Taxation

  LAW 230

  Business Associations

  LAW 234

  Accounting For Lawyers

  LAW 358

  Financial Analysis
• Group A Course (required)
  LAW 291

  Taxation of Business Enterprises
• Group B Courses (three are required [1])
  LAW 222

  Estate and Gift Taxation

  LAW 224

  U.S. International Taxation

  LAW 228

  Mergers & Acquisitions

  LAW 238

  Executive Compensation

  LAW 251

  Business Strategy and Corporate Governance

  LAW 285

  Local Government Law

  LAW 363

  Tax - Exempt Organizations

  LAW 380

  State and Local Taxation

  LAW 390

  Estate Planning

  LAW 447

  Corporate Finance - What you need to know to be a successful lawyer

  LAW 536

  Proposition 13: Law, History, and Politics

  LAW 543

  UCLA Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance

  LAW 660

  Cities in Distress

  LAW 780

  Tax Practice

  [1] A second Transactional Skills course may be counted as a Group B course.

  Law 780. Tax Practice, a one-unit course, meets half of a Group B requirement.

  Although Law 780. Tax Practice is a one-unit course, it is worth a full unit in the Taxation Specialization since there are no other half-unit courses in the specialization.

   

• Transactional Skills Courses (one is required [1])
  LAW 271

  International Business Transactions

  LAW 343

  Complex Finance Transactions

  LAW 364

  Motion Picture Distribution

  LAW 391

  Venture Capital and the Start-Up Company

  LAW 714

  Structuring Business Deals and Negotiations

  LAW 721

  Real Estate Law: Affordable Housing

  LAW 737

  Internal Corporate Investigations

  LAW 739

  Community Economic Development Clinic

  LAW 741

  Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions

  LAW 743

  Corporate Practice Clinic

  LAW 744

  Merger and Acquisition Transactions

  LAW 751

  Transactional Skills

  LAW 759

  Life Cycle of a Business: From Start-up to Sale

  LAW 765

  Trademark Clinic

  LAW 780

  Tax Practice

  [1] A second Transactional Skills course may be counted as a Group B course.

  Although Law 780. Tax Practice is a one-unit course, it is worth a full unit in the Taxation Specialization since there are no other half-unit courses in the specialization.