Corporate, Commercial, and Business Law

Washington University School of Law’s faculty has exceptional expertise in Corporate, Commercial, and Business law.

Professor Michael M. Greenfield has published a treatise and a casebook on consumer transactions. He teaches the first-year course in contracts and an upperclass course in consumer transactions. Professor Daniel Keating teaches courses on the Uniform Commercial Code and a seminar on business reorganizations. Professor Keating is the author of two casebooks on commercial law and a treatise on bankruptcy and employment law.

Our corporate and business curriculum includes many of our tax courses, in particular, Federal Income Taxation, Pensions & Tax- Favored Savings, Pass-Through Business Taxation, Corporate Taxation, and Corporate Reorganizations. Professor Peter Wiedenbeck, who has co-authored one casebook on employee benefits and another on partnership taxation, and others teach these courses.

A nationally recognized authority on corporate and white-collar crime, Professor Kathleen F. Brickey has written both a casebook and a treatise. She teaches the first-year course in criminal law as well as upperclass electives in corporate and white-collar crime and in federal criminal law.

Washington University School of Law’s curriculum also includes courses in antitrust, insurance law, products liability, unfair trade practices, and many labor and employment courses, such as Labor Law I, Labor Law II, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination.

One of our several joint degree programs allows students to earn an MBA along with a JD, studying at the School of Law and at the University’s Olin School of Business.

The School of Law also has LLM programs in Taxation and Intellectual Property.