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The Center for Law & Business is a unique shared venture between
the New York University School of Law and the Leonard N. Stern School
of Business. The Center is designed to enrich the professional education
of students of law and business and to facilitate joint teaching
to involve leaders in banking, business, and law in the intellectual
life of the University through sponsorship of meetings, conferences
and dinners.
The Director of the Center is William T. Allen who, before joining
the faculties of both the law school and the business school in
the fall of 1997, served as Chancellor of the Delaware Court of
Chancery (a court most often referred to as “the Supreme Court
of corporate law”). Chancellor Allen chose NYU School of Law
after being courted by other top law schools because, as he explained,
“New York is the nation’s financial and legal center,
and NYU is becoming a preeminent center for scholarship and teaching
in those areas.”
The Center brings together law students and business students in
the classrooms of both schools. Business school classes that have
been open to law students include:
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Global Banking and Capital Markets
- Investment Banking
- Bankruptcy and Reorganization
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Real Estate Finance
- Restructuring Firms and Industries
- Project and Structured Finance
- Venture Capital Financing
Law students get law school credit for these courses, as well as
for others that are approved on an individual basis.
The Center also sponsors two seminar series each year. In the fall
semester, the Corporate Law Colloquium is held in the law school,
and in the spring semester the Law and Finance Seminar Series is
held in the Finance department of the Stern School. With a different
emphasis, each of these seminars focuses on issues arising out of
the legal institutions that structure the economy. Market regulation,
corporate governance and finance, and issues of transaction contracting
fall within the purview of these seminars. The seminars are a forum
for the presentation of papers by leading law and business professors
from NYU and other universities. Faculty members, students, and
practitioners that attend these presentations discuss and comment
upon papers at the pre-publication stage, thus having an opportunity
to shape current thinking on the topic at hand.
In addition, the Center sponsors Speaker Series luncheons throughout
the school year featuring leading figures in business and law to
address and interact with the students. The student luncheon series
is co-sponsored by the Wall Street Barristers group, an organization
of students of NYU School of Law who have an interest in business
law. Past speakers have included Joseph Flom, Senior Partner of
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Martin Lipton, Partner
of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Michael Fricklas, executive
vice president, general counsel and secretary of Viacom, Inc.; and
Dr. Henry Kaufman, founder of Henry Kaufman & Co. and Chairman
Emeritus of the Stern School of Business.
The Center’s Web site is located at www.stern.nyu.edu/clb.
Contact Danise Malqui, Program Coordinator, at (212) 998-0565
or at dmalqui@stern.nyu.edu
for more information about upcoming Center events.
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