Baruch College

Undergraduate Bulletin - Academic Programs and Courses

Department of Law


The Faculty

Chair:  Elliot Axelrod
    Professors:
  • Elliot Axelrod
  • Seth Lipner
  • Paula Walter
  • Allan Wernick
    Associate Professors:
  • Matthew Edwards
  • Donna Gitter
  • Debbie Kaminer
  • Sandra Mullings (deputy chair)
  • David Rosenberg
  • Valerie Watnick
  • Jay Weiser
    Assistant Professors:
  • Maria DiMeo Calvelli
    Lecturer:
  • Elaine Anderson

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Field Description

There are few business decisions of any consequence that are without legal risks. Business must operate within domestic and international legal frameworks. Therefore, knowledge of business law is a vital, inherent part of business. The study of law also develops students’ critical thinking, analytical, and negotiation skills—all of which are essential to being a successful businessperson. In addition to offering a law minor that includes cutting-edge courses in e-commerce, computer, regulatory, and international law, the department also supervises real estate law offerings.

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The Minors

 

Law and Policy Tier III
Interdisciplinary Concentration

The Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business and the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences offer a joint interdisciplinary program in law and policy that satisfies Baruch College’s Tier III liberal arts requirement. The law and policy concentration is suitable for both liberal arts and business students who have an interest in developing a critical, multidisciplinary understanding of the U.S. legal system. This program focuses on analyzing the legal system from various liberal arts and jurisprudential perspectives and thus draws heavily on philosophical, historical, sociological, and political insights about law and individual rights.

To satisfy the Tier III concentration in law and policy, students must take two of the courses listed below from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and one of the capstone courses offered by Department of Law.

Arts and Sciences Courses
BLS 3014 Civil Rights Legislation and Litigation
SOC 3014
 3 credits
ENG 3220 Media Ethics
 3 credits
ENV 3005 Economic and Legal Aspects of Ecology 3 credits
HIS 3005 Social Welfare Policy
POL 3005		 3 credits
HIS 3008 Religion and Politics in the United States
POL 3008, REL 3008		 3 credits
HIS 3060 African American History 3 credits
HIS 3650 Women in America 3 credits
LAW 3122 Law and the Environment* 3 credits
PHI 3020 Philosophy of Law 3 credits
PHI 3260 Crime and Punishment 3 credits
POL 3313 Constitutional Law 3 credits
POL 3314 Civil Liberties 3 credits
POL 3422 Urban Public Policy 3 credits
PSY 3069 Psychology and Law 3 credits
SOC 3154 Crime and Justice in Sociological Perspective

 3 credits

Capstone Courses

There are presently two capstone courses for the interdisciplinary law and policy Tier III concentration. Students in this program must take one of these two courses after taking two of the Arts and Sciences courses listed above.
LAW 4900 Law, Public Policy and Legal Theory
 3 credits
LAW 4905 U.S. Immigration Law and Policy

 3 credits

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The Zicklin School of Business
Minor In Business Law**

The Department of Law also offers a minor in business law for students in the Zicklin School of Business, which is oriented toward the legal regulation of business, rather than liberal arts. Unlike the interdisciplinary law and policy Tier III concentration, the Zicklin business law minor does not satisfy Baruch College’s Tier III liberal arts requirement. Students with an interest in business law are encouraged to take the business law minor in addition to the liberal arts concentration used to satisfy the Tier III requirement. To satisfy the business law minor, students may take any three LAW courses at the 3000 level:
LAW 3102 The Law of Business Organizations 3 credits
LAW 3103 The Law of Negotiable Instruments and Documents 3 credits
LAW 3104 The Law of Mercantile Transactions 3 credits
LAW 3106 Law & Entrepreneurship
 3 credits
LAW 3107 The Law of Business Regulation 3 credits
LAW 3108 Law and the Internet 3 credits
LAW 3109 Law, Business, and the Defective Product 3 credits
LAW 3110 Debtor and Creditor Law 3 credits
LAW 3111 Law and International Business 3 credits
LAW 3112 Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration 3 credits
LAW 3113 Law of Commercial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution 3 credits
LAW 3115 Securities Law and Business Crime 3 credits
LAW 3118 Law of Unfair Competition and Intellectual Property 3 credits
LAW 3122 Law and the Environment 3 credits
LAW 3123 Employment Law 3 credits
LAW 3220 Law and the Entertainment Business 3 credits
LAW 3301 Real Estate Law, Markets and Institutional Settings 3 credits
LAW 3302 The Law of Real Estate Transactions

 3 credits

*For the purposes of this program, this course counts as an Arts and Sciences course.

**Optional second minor open only to students pursuing a major within the Zicklin School of Business.

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