SECURITIES REGULATION

FINANCE 340

Analysis of fixed income, bond markets. Introduce tools for evaluating bonds and making decisions about trading and hedging portfolios of fixed income securities. Focus on government bonds and derivative securities. Consider basic ways to price bonds using techniques that are well established on Wall St. Introduces basic trading strategies based on exploiting mis-priced securities. Strategize ways to measure and minimize risk. Other topics include repo financing, mortgage markets, and basic issues involving default risk of corporate bonds.

LAW 750

Legislation and regulation play the dominant role in shaping law in the modern American legal system. All lawyers, irrespective of the area of law must understand statutes and regulations. An introduction providing a deeper understanding of these forms of law and the institutions that make this law, and to help them better appreciate the role that lawyers play in the American legal system as it operates in practice. To think like a lawyer, and hence to represent or advise clients, requires an ability to do so in the context of the regulatory state.

LAW 736

Focuses on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, Secured Transactions; with some additional emphasis on Article 6, Bulk Sales; and Article 7, Documents of Title.

LAW 748

Law relating to trade regulation and competitive practices; anti-trust and comparable laws dealing with monopoly, restraint of trade, and unfair methods of competition.

LAW 741

Law of business corporations; problems of control, management, and procurement and maintenance of capital; an introduction to securities regulation.