Business Law

2025-26Business

Through DePaul's Business Law Program, you’ll gain a strong foundation in business law, mastering the legal principles and practical skills needed to advise businesses of all sizes—whether you’re navigating complex transactions or handling litigation. Our comprehensive curriculum prepares you to think strategically, solve real-world challenges and make an immediate impact in the business world.

Certificates and Degrees

Student Organizations and Journals

Lawyering Skills Courses

  • Legal Clinics
    • Business Law
    • Civil Litigation & Consumer Protection Field Clinic
  • Professional Skills Courses
    • Anatomy of a Deal: From Inception to Closing
    • Business Planning
    • Commercial Arbitration
    • Legal Drafting: Transactions
    • Negotiations
  • Moot Court and Private Equity & Entrepreneurial Transactions Team
  • Externships with government agencies, law firms and businesses

Upper-Level Courses

*Representative selection; course offerings may vary from year to year

  • Antitrust

  • Bankruptcy

  • Business and Commercial Law Journal Editorial Board

  • Business Organizations

  • Commercial Law Survey

  • Corporate Finance

  • Derivatives for Attorneys

  • Employee Benefits

  • Employment Discrimination

  • Estate Planning

  • Federal Income Taxation

  • Fiduciary Law

  • Insurance Law

  • International Business Transactions

  • International Trade Law

  • Introduction to Corporate Finance

  • Labor Law

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Non-Profit Organizations

  • Real Estate Transactions

  • Sales

  • Secured Transactions

  • Securities Fraud

  • Securities Regulation

  • Senior Research Seminar

  • Taxation of Business Entities