Core Requirements
The requirements for the International Business Law Specialization were developed by an advisory group of practitioners and academics, both alumni and friends of Loyola with the intent of preparing graduates to be exposed to the legal doctrines and skills necessary to be effective attorneys.
The LLM degree requires 24 total units of credit. The International Business Law Specialization will be recognized upon the satisfactory completion of 13 units of coursework. This includes 4 units of required courses and a minimum of 9 units of electives.
Required Courses
Successful completion of the following required courses:
- Business Associations (4 units)
Elective Courses (minimum 9 units)
- Accounting and Finance for Lawyers (1 unit)
- Antitrust Law (3 units)
- Business & Legal Affairs for Alternative/Reality TV Programming and Distribution (2 units)
- Business Immigration Law (3 units)
- Business Planning I: Financing the Start-up Business and Venture Capital Financing
- Consumer Bankruptcy Clinic: Advocacy Process (4 units)
- Contract Drafting (2 units)
- Contracts (4 units)
- Copyright Law (3 units)
- Corporate Finance (3 units)
- Cyber Security and AI Governance (1 unit)
- Cyber Security and Regulatory Compliance (2 units)
- Employment Law (2 units)
- Entertainment Law (3 units)
- Income Taxation I (3 units)
- Innovation Law (3 units)
- International Business Transactions (3 units)
- Introduction to Income Taxation (3 units)
- Introduction to International Law (3 units)
- Introduction to Negotiations (2 units)
- Law of Digital Media Platforms (1 unit)
- Law of Sales: Domestic and International (3 units)
- Legal Research for the Transactional Lawyer (1 unit)
- Litigating a Copyright Case Seminar (2 units)
- Mediation (3 units)
- Mergers and Acquisitions (3 units)
- Modern Real Estate Transactions - Commercial (2 units)
- Patent Law (3 units)
- Pro Se Mediation Advocacy Clinic (3 units)
- Secured Transactions in Real Property (3 units)
- Securities Regulation (3 units)
- Structured Finance Practice: The Lifecycle of a Securitization Transaction (1 unit)
- Trademark Law (3 units)
- Trusts and Wills (4 units)