Curriculum

• Foundation Courses (Required)
  LAW 220

  Introduction to Federal Income Taxation

  LAW 230

  Business Associations

  LAW 234

  Accounting and Financial Analysis for Lawyers

  Further information on Foundation Courses

  Law 234. Accounting and Financial Analysis for Lawyers is intended for students who have had no prior exposure to accounting. If you believe you qualify for a waiver, please email Professor Michael Dorff at dorffm@law.ucla.edu listing the accounting and finance courses you have taken and any other accounting/finance experience you have.

• Group A Courses (required)
  LAW 430

  Partnership and Passthrough Taxation

  LAW 435

  Corporate Taxation

  Two Group A courses are required, Law 430 Partnership and Passthrough Taxation and Law 435 Corporate Taxation. Students who took 291. Taxation of Business Enterprises when it was offered can satisfy the Group A requirement with that one course. Those students are required to take three Group B courses.

• Group B Courses (two are required)
  LAW 222

  Estate and Gift Taxation

  LAW 224

  U.S. International Taxation

  LAW 228

  Mergers & Acquisitions

  LAW 249

  Tax Aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions

  LAW 251

  Business Strategy and Corporate Governance

  LAW 285

  Local Government Law

  LAW 363

  Nonprofit Law and Policy

  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 488

  Policy Challenges in Tax Law

  LAW 536

  Proposition 13: Law, History, and Politics

  LAW 543

  UCLA Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance

  LAW 648

  Business Law Workshop

  LAW 660

  Cities in Distress

  LAW 780

  Tax Practice

  LAW 982

  Political Activities of Nonprofit Organizations

  Students who took 291. Taxation of Business Enterprises when it was offered and are using it to satisfy the Group A requirement are required to take three Group B courses.

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

  Note that some courses offer one or two academic credit units and, as a result, meet one-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.

   

• Transactional Skills Courses (one is required)
  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 721

  Real Estate Law: Affordable Housing

  LAW 737

  Internal Corporate Investigations

  LAW 741

  Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions

  LAW 744

  Merger and Acquisition Transactions

  LAW 751

  Transactional Skills

  LAW 759

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

  LAW 768

  Sports Law Simulation

  LAW 777

  Patent Litigation

  LAW 780

  Tax Practice

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

  Note that some courses offer one or two academic credit units and, as a result, meet one-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.