Economic Regulations

General Advice

The curriculum offers a number of courses dealing with various types of economic regulation. Students who expect to represent clients engaged in almost any kind of commercial or industrial activity should find some of these courses, such as Antitrust, Insurance, Products Liability, of interest. Students who anticipate practices which specialize in representing particular industries, such as public utilities and financial institutions, should find other courses essential, including Banking Regulation and Transactions, Regulated Industries, Electronic Media, Health Care Financing and Business Planning. Additionally, many of these course offerings should be of interest to students who look to work in the public sector as elected officials or in staff or agency positions. Because much economic regulation is implemented by administrative agencies pursuant to complex statutes, a firm grounding in Administrative Law is of particular importance.

Specific Courses/Frequency of Offering

(Representative list only. Many courses not listed can be conceptualized in terms of relating to economic regulation).

• Administrative Law (3 hrs.) (every year/day; alternating years/evening)
  
• Antitrust (3 hrs.) (every year/day or evening)
  
• Insurance (2 hrs.) (usually in alternating summers)
  
• Products Liability (3 hrs.) (usually every year/day)
  
• Law and Economics (2 hrs.) (offered occasionally)
  
• Securities Regulation (3 hrs.) (every year/day; occasionally/evening)
  
• Regulation of Foreign Trade and Investment (3 hrs.) (offered occasionally)
  
• International Tax (2 hrs.) (alternating years/day or evening)
  
• Environmental Law (3 hrs.) (every year/day; occasionally/evening)
  
• Health Care Financing and Business Planning (3 hrs.) (every year)

Seminars (usually offered in late afternoon)

• Telecommunications (2 hrs.) (usually every year)
  
• Sports and the Law (2 hrs.) (every other year)
  
• ERISA and Employee Benefits (2 hrs.) (every year, usually in evening)

Sequencing of Courses

Students should enroll in Administrative Law in the spring of their second year (or at the earliest possible time for evening students).