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The Center for Business Law (CBL) operates as a forum for faculty and students to integrate course work with policy research in the areas of intellectual property law, tax law, and corporate governance and ethics.

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, which focus on corporate governance and ethics, intellectual property, and tax law, plus a business law practice credit 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.