Center for Business Law Conference
Is the Code Exploding or Imploding?
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Bar Association
Whether they come to New England Law | Boston from positions at major firms or regulatory agencies, CBL professors understand the big picture from an insider’s perspective. One professor is a member of the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board. Another was the executive director of FINRA and past regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission. With student placements at organizations like the Boston Stock Exchange and insurance giant Liberty Mutual, faculty and students integrate course work with academic study and policy research across the spectrum of business law topics.
CBL’s three institutes focus on corporate governance and ethics, intellectual property, and tax law. The Business Practice Credit allows students who are taking a business law course to earn academic credit for a supervised internship in which they assist attorneys in handling law topics pertaining to business. Law degrees can be enhanced by these opportunities, which keep New England Law students on the leading edge of theory and practice.
Faculty and students of the institutes also undertake projects in areas of emerging need that both grow out of and feed back into CBL academic work. In addition, the institutes offer a variety of career enhancement programs and seminars. Recent projects include data collection on the use of criminal statutes to prosecute corporate entities. The findings will be used to help scholars and students alike make judgments about whether this is a good use of criminal law.