William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 































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The William S. Boyd School of Law and the UNLV College of Business offer a dual Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA) degree program that allows students admitted to both programs to pursue the two degrees concurrently.

Pursued individually, the JD requires the completion of 89 credit hours and the MBA requires the completion of 48 credit hours. The dual JD/MBA requires the completion of 80 law credit hours and 33 business credit hours, as 15 credit hours of law courses are accepted toward the MBA and nine credit hours of business courses are accepted toward the JD.

Applicants to the JD/MBA program must apply for, and gain admission to, both the Boyd School of Law JD program and to the College of Business MBA program, respectively. For information on MBA program application procedures, interested individuals should contact the College of Business-MBA Program at (702) 895-3655 or go to their website. When seeking admission to each of the two schools, applicants are asked to submit with each application a statement indicating their wish to pursue the dual JD/MBA degree.

While applications from current students in either program will be considered, students normally should secure admission to each program upon entering the university. However, petitions for admission to the dual JD/MBA program from students at more advanced stages in either program will be considered.

Under American Bar Association standards, the Boyd School of Law cannot award credit for any course work taken prior to matriculation into the JD program. JD/MBA candidates therefore normally must enroll at the Boyd School of Law and complete one year of study before taking any MBA courses to be applied to the JD degree.


JD/MBA Curriculum


MBA Core Required Courses:

33 credits
Applied Statistics 3
Law, Regulations, and Ethical Issues 3
Organizational Behavior 3
Accounting Management 3
Applied Economic Analysis 3
Finance 3
Market Opportunity Analysis 3
Value Chain Management 3
Information Systems for Management 3
International Business and Cross-cultural Perspectives 3
Strategy Formulation Processes (to be completed during final semester of MBA course work) 3

Required Law Courses:

44 credits*
Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution I 3
Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution II 3
Constitutional Law I 3
Constitutional Law II 3
Contracts 5
Criminal Law 3
Lawyering Process I 3
Lawyering Process II 3
Upper-level writing-intensive course (one of various courses) 2-3
Professional Responsibility 3
Property I 3
Property II 2
Torts 4
Third Semester Lawyering Process Course 3


Directed Electives at Law School:

18 credits*
Advanced Intellectual Property Seminar 3
Advanced Issues in Tax 3
Antitrust 3
Banking Law 3
Basic Bankruptcy 3
Business Bankruptcy 2-3
Business Organizations I 3-4
Business Organizations II 3
Commercial Law (Core Concepts of Secured Transactions and Payment Systems) 3
Cyberlaw 3
Economics and the Law 3
Employment Discrimination Law 3
Employment Law 3
Federal Income Tax 3
Federal Taxation 1-5
Gaming Law 3
Gaming Policy Law Seminar 1-3
Health Care Organization and Finance 3
Insurance Law 3
Intellectual Property I 3
Intellectual Property II 3
International Business Transactions 3
Labor Law 3
Payment Systems 3
Real Estate Finance 3
Sales and Leases 3
Secured Transactions 3
Securities Regulation 3
Securitization 3
Taxation of Business Entities 3
U.S. Taxation of International Transactions 3


Free Electives at Law School:

18 credits

Students in the JD/MBA program must complete 18 other credits of "free" electives at the law school. These free electives may come from the list of directed electives or from any other elective offered at the law school.

Available Courses

Administrative Law

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

Advanced Contracts (Sales and Leasing)

Advanced Issues in Tax

Advanced Legal Research

Advanced Mediation

Advanced Negotiation

Alternative Dispute Resolution Practicum

American Legal History

Antitrust

Arbitration

Banking Law

Basic Bankruptcy

The Bill of Rights in Law and History

Bioethics and the Law

Business Bankruptcy

Business Organizations I

Business Organizations II

Capital Defense Clinic

Child, Parent, and the State

Child Welfare Clinic

Children in Society: Selected Problems

Civil and Criminal Litigation in Tax

Commercial Law: Core Concepts of Secured Transactions and Payment Systems

Community Property

Conflict of Laws

Congressional Externship

Constitutional Law II

Criminal Procedure I

Criminal Procedure II

Cyberlaw

Directed Readings

Directed Research

Disability Law

Domestic Violence and the Law

Economics and the Law

Education Law and Policy

Employment Discrimination Law

Employment Law

Entertainment Law

Environmental Quality Law

Estate and Gift Tax

Evidence

Family Law

Federal Courts

Federal Income Tax

Federal Taxation

Feminist Jurisprudence

First Amendment Rights

Gaming Law

Gaming Policy Law Seminar

Government & Public Interest Externship

Health Care Liability and Quality Regulation

Health Care Organization and Finance

Immigration Clinic

Immigration Law

Insurance Law

Intellectual Property II

International Human Rights Law

International Public Law

Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiations

Judicial Externship

Juvenile Justice Clinic

Juvenile Law

Labor Law

Land Use Regulation

Law and the American Indian

Law and Literature

Law and Social Justice

Law Journal

Law Practice Management

Lawyering Theory and Practice

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Legislative Externship

Natural Resources Field Seminar

Payment Systems

Pretrial Litigation

Privacy, Publicity & Defamation

Products Liability

Public Lands and Natural Resources Law

Real Estate Finance

Remedies

Secured Transactions

Securitization

Seminar in Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and the Law

Separation of Powers Law

Special Topics in Law

Media Law

Society of Advocates

Taxation of Business Entities

Trial Advocacy

Water Law

Wills, Trusts and Estates

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