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Business and Entrepreneurial Law

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The Business and Entrepreneurial Law Emphasis positions students to recognize and appreciate the multidisciplinary nature of the design, planning and operation of business ventures and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to be valuable members of entrepreneurial teams.

Our Business and Entrepreneurial Law curriculum is designed by faculty who have decades of experience as transactional lawyers. Students can take a variety of courses on cutting-edge business law topics, including diverse subject areas and interdisciplinary courses involving faculty and students from the law school and  other academic units. Through clinical opportunities, and a variety of project-based elements of the curriculum, Business and Entrepreneurial Law students will develop multiple skills needed to be value-adding members of business and entrepreneurial teams.

  • Business Organizations
  • Taxation of Business Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • Structured Finance
  • Accounting Principles
  • Administrative and Regulatory Law
  • Commercial Transactions
  • Debtor-Creditor Relations
  • For-profit, social and civic entrepreneurial ventures
  • Finance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations
  • Real Estate
  • Taxation

  • Faculty-supervised independent studies on regulation of emerging technologies (in collaboration with local governments)
  • Interdisciplinary project-based courses in Entrepreneurial Urban Development and in Law, Technology and Public Policy

  • Bankruptcy court
  • Local government offices
  • Social entrepreneurship organizations
  • Technology transfer offices

  • J.D./MBA
  • J.D./MPA
  • J.D./LL.M. in Taxation

  • Business Planning
  • Client Counseling
  • International Transactions
  • Negotiation
  • Transactional Lawyering

  • Business Law Association
  • Estates and Trust Law Society
  • Intellectual Property Society

To discuss questions relating to the substance of this emphasis area or its relationship to other learning and career opportunities, please contact Prof. Tony Luppino, who serves as faculty lead.

UMKC School of Law is approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions of the American Bar Association, 321, North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654, 312-988-6738.