Academics

Curriculum and Timeline

Three-Year JD/MBA*

Program Year

Hours

 Courses

First Year

Fall and Spring Semester:
32 hours at the Law School

 
  • Contracts I
  • Torts
  • Criminal Law
  • Civil Procedure
  • Legal Research/Writing I
  • Contracts II
  • Property
  • Evidence
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal Research/Writing II

Second Year

Summer Semester:
15 hours at the Law School

Fall and Spring Semester:
30 hours at the Business School
  • Concepts for Financial & Managerial Accounting
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Theory
  • Statistics for Business Applications
  • Operations Management
  • Financial Management
  • Decision Modeling & Business Intelligence
  • Managerial Economics

Third Year

Summer Semester:
1 Externship for 5 law credit hours

Fall and Spring Semester:
9 hours at the Business School
23 hours at the Law School
  • Business Policy
  • Management Communication
  • MBA Elective
  • Law Electives

*Option 2 allows students to start coursework during the first summer of enrollment (4 credit hours of first-year law classes).
For more details, please email admissions@law.ua.edu.

Four-Year JD/MBA

Program Year

Hours (fall and spring semesters)

  Courses

First Year

32 hours at the Law School
  • Contracts I
  • Torts
  • Criminal Law
  • Civil Procedure
  • Legal Research/Writing I
  • Contracts II
  • Property
  • Evidence
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal Research/Writing II

Second Year

30 hours at the Business School

  • Concepts for Financial & Managerial Accounting
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Theory
  • Statistics for Business Applications
  • Operations Management
  • Financial Management
  • Decision Modeling & Business Intelligence
  • Managerial Economics

Third Year

Hours vary.

  Law electives

Fourth Year

Hours vary.

  Mix of law and business electives, including:

  • Business Policy
  • Management Communication


Courses eligible for transfer credit

Both programs accept credit from the other in meeting degree requirements, i.e., the Law School accepts 15 MBA hours toward the JD, and the MBA program accepts 18 law hours toward the MBA (see below):

Hours Transferred for Joint JD/MBA Student:
15 hours of credit from the MBA Program apply to JD graduation credits for students in Joint JD/MBA Program:
GBA 525 Business Policy 3 hours
FI 504 Financial Management 3 hours
MIS 511 Management Information Systems 3 hours
MGT 542 Management Communication 3 hours
MKT 518 Survey of Marketing 3 hours
The MBA Program allows joint JD/MBA Students to transfer 18 Law School credits to the MBA Program from the following courses:
LAW 683 Administrative Law 2-3 hours
LAW 729 Advanced Corporate Tax 2-3 hours
LAW 758 Agency and Partnership 2-3 hours
LAW 705 Alternative Dispute Resolution 2-3 hours
LAW 684 Antitrust Law 2-3 hours
LAW 724 Banking Law 2-3 hours
LAW 727 Bankruptcy 3 hours
LAW 614 Business Crimes 2-3 hours
LAW 784 Business Fraud Seminar 2 hours
LAW 685 Business Planning 2-3 hours
LAW 765 Corporate Finance 2-3 hours
LAW 703 Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions 2-3 hours
LAW 702 Environmental Law I 2-3 hours
LAW 689 Income Tax Business Entities 2-3 hours
LAW 671 International Business Transactions 2-3 hours
LAW 666 International Trade Law 2-3 hours
LAW 783 Labor Arbitration 2-3 hours
LAW 676 Labor Law I 2-3 hours
LAW 723 Law and Economics 2-3 hours
LAW 722 Copyrights 3 hours
LAW 835 Patents 3 hours
LAW 661 Payment Systems 2-3 hours
LAW 679 Real Property Security 2-3 hours
LAW 776 Sales Law 2-3 hours
LAW 662 Secured Credit Transactions 2-3 hours
LAW 709 Securities Regulation 2-3 hours
LAW 752 Trademarks & Unfair Competition 2-3 hours
LAW 816 Transactional Drafting 2 hours

Courses not listed above may be eligible for the joint JD/MBA program curriculum with the approval of  Claude Arrington, Law School Associate Dean for Academic Services, and Brian Gray, Manderson Graduate School of Business Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. The Law School and the Manderson Graduate School of Business reserve the right to make changes to the required and elective courses.