Cardozo's cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of law, technology, and business include the Cardozo Data Law Initiative, the Patent Diversity Project Clinic, the Filmmakers Legal Clinic, the Entrepreneurship and Community Business Clinic, the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, and the FAME Center for fashion, arts, media, and entertainment law. In the Fall 2024 issue of preLaw Magazine, Cardozo received an A+ rating.
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Why Cardozo for Business?
Cardozo is the ideal place to study corporate, securities, and commercial law, offering a comprehensive curriculum taught by professors who are recognized experts in their fields. Core courses familiarize students with the fundamental concepts and theories of corporate law, and upper-level courses focus on advanced topics and specific practice areas. In addition, special courses equip students with the skills and tools they will need in corporate practice, whether as transactional lawyers or litigators.
Cardozo’s location in New York City, the world’s leading financial and commercial center, provides students a wealth of internship and clinical opportunities for hands-on experience with clients. Speakers, special guests and panels enrich the community and are great for networking.
The Heyman Center on Corporate Governance supports research in environmental law, financial institutions, antitrust, mass tort litigation, alternative dispute resolution (including business and securities arbitration), employment law, international and comparative business, investment and trade, and commercial law.
Intensives
Students are encouraged to take advantage of short boot-camp simulation programs in January. These programs include Negotiation Theories and Skills, Intensive Transactional Lawyering Program (ITRANS), and Introduction to Financial Statements (I-Fins), all of which help lawyers in every field understand business practices.
The Heyman Center on Corporate Governance
The Samuel & Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance serves as a hub for research on innovation in business and corporate law. Our renowned faculty have expertise in many areas including technology; antitrust; regulation; securities; corporate compliance and Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance (ESG).
The Center brings together leading scholars, business leaders, practitioners and students to engage in business law scholarship and research. Our students and scholars benefit from access to our New York City location, one of the world’s great commerce, finance and technology centers. Our students learn to become ethical business lawyers, equipped with the skills they need to lead in corporate practice, as transactional lawyers or litigators. In addition to rigorous classroom learning, our students gain real-world practical experience through clinics, internships and externships at some of the most prestigious global companies.
Our students solve complex legal challenges for clients at in-house clinics, including the Securities Arbitration Clinic, the Tech Startup Clinic, and the Filmmakers Legal Clinic.
Clinical Work and Experience
Our students solve complex legal challenges for clients at in-house clinics, including the Securities Arbitration Clinic, the Filmmakers Legal Clinic, and the Entrepreneurship and Community Business Clinic.
In addition to our clinics and classroom learning, students gain real-world practical experience through internships and externships. Our students have participated in externships at prestigious companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Chanel, Morgan Stanley, SONY Music, and Viacom.
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