Business Law at Western
For many years, Western Law’s unique curricular focus on business law in the global environment assured its status as Canada’s premier business law school. Western Law’s business law curriculum offers a wide range of courses examining the fundamentals of business organizations, finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, trade and taxation, as well as leading-edge topics in mining and energy law, corporate social responsibility, and corporate restructuring. Our extraordinary visiting business and law speakers programs feature internationally-renowned business and law scholars and policy leaders including six Nobel Prize recipients.
Western’s Business Law Advantage
Canada’s Finest Visiting Distinguished Business Law Speakers Program
Western Law’s pre-eminence in Canadian business law studies is reflected in its extraordinary visiting business and law speakers programs. These programs are, without question, the finest in the country and indeed are second to none anywhere in the world. Top international scholars and business leaders visit Western Law each year to speak to our students or teach intensive specialized courses, under the auspices of our signature business law visitors programs: the Business and Law Scholarship Seminar, the annual Western Law Business and Law Lecture, and the Richard H. McLaren Visiting Professorship in Business Law.
A Canadian First: Corporate Law Available as a First-Year Elective
Western Law offers first-year law students the option of taking Corporate Law in the Winter Term. This option, unique among Canadian law schools, allows interested students to develop a critical understanding of the role of Canadian business enterprises early in their law school career, and enables the to begin taking more advanced courses immediately in the fall of second year.
Western Business Law Clinic
The law school is home to the Western Business Law Clinic, which provides small start-up and early stage businesses with affordable legal counsel, while at the same time creating an environment for students to learn invaluable practical skills.
JD/MBA and HBA/JD Degree Programs with the Ivey Business School
The Ivey Business School of Business at Western University is one of the world’s leading business schools, and Western Law regularly collaborates with our colleagues at Ivey. Western Law and the Ivey Business School offer two joint programs: the Concurrent HBA/JD program and the JD/MBA program which was the first three-year JD/MBA program offered in Canada.
Torys LLP Corporate and Securities Law Forum
Thanks to a generous gift from the Torys LLP law firm and Western Law alumni at that firm, a unique series of ongoing corporate and securities law initiatives have been established at Western Law.
Business Law Centres
Western Law is host, or co-host, to a number of exciting business law initiatives, including:
Centre for Financial Innovation and Risk Management: Western Law, together with experts from the departments of Economics, Applied Mathematics, Statistical & Actuarial Sciences and the Ivey Business School, have formed an interdisciplinary Centre for Financial Innovation and Risk Management to engage in research, outreach and other initiatives aimed at addressing the types of financial risks and challenges that led to, and emerged from, the 2008 global financial crisis.
Master of Financial Economics (MFE) program: The Western MFE program is a collaborative program of the Department of Economics, the Ivey Business School, the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and Western Law. These units have joined forces to provide MFE students with a broad understanding of Financial Theory and the Economics framework upon which that theory is based, as well as the understanding of Quantitative Finance and Securities Regulation required for today's complex financial world.
