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Diagram of Commercial Law Courses

Below are commercial law courses to guide students in choosing classes that might broaden their expertise in the subject.

Foundational

Required First-Year Courses

Business Organizations
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Peter Oh	3
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Charles Cohen, Esquire Professor Matthew Shames, Esquire	3

Commercial Transactions in Goods
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Jacqueline Lipton	3

Federal Income Taxation
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Anthony Infanti	4
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Philip Hackney	4

Secured Transactions
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor William Price, Esquire	3

Developmental

Required Upper-Level Courses

Antitrust
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Peter Oh	3

Bankruptcy
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Judith Fitzgerald	3

International Business Transactions
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Ronald Brand	3

International Commercial Arbitration
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Ronald Brand	3

Specialized

Electives

Choose courses from this list of electives.

Business Planning, Entrepreneurship & Technology
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Craig Heryford, Esquire	2

Commercial Paper and Banking
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Beverly Weiss Manne	2

Commercializing New Technologies
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Susan Cohen Professor Stephanie Dangel	3

In-House Counsel in Modern Corporations
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Marcy Smorey-Giger, Esquire	2

Introduction to Accounting for Lawyers
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Reid Meyer	1

Law and Entrepreneurship
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Spring Term 2021-2022		Professor Elliot Dater, Esquire	3

Legal Writing for the Transactional Lawyer
Term	Class Schedule	Professor(s)	Credits
Fall Term 2021-2022		Professor Stephanie Dangel	2
Spring Term 2021-2022			2