Combined JD/MBA Program

This is a four-year program that enables students to select courses leading to degrees of Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration. The combined program is structured as follows:

Year 1

  • CRMBA program starts in early June, with four courses taken from July-August
  • September to December: Core and Foundation CRMBA courses
  • January to August: mandatory eight-month Corporate Residency
  • Non-credit course in Personal and Professional Effectiveness, taken throughout

Year 2

  • First-year courses of the JD program
  • CRMBA Online Electives (summer, 3 credit hours of 1.5 credit hour courses)

Year 3

MBA:

  • BUSI 5551 Operations Management (fall)
  • CRMBA Online Electives (fall, 3 credit hours of 1.5 credit hour courses)
  • BUSI 6998 Building Collaborative Capacity (winter)(can be taken in Year 3 or Year 4)

JD: 23-25 credits, including:

  • LAWS 2062.05: Constitutional Law  **required in Year 3
  • LAWS 2361.025: Civil Procedure  **required in Year 3
  • LAWS 2362.025: Civil Procedure **required in Year 3
  • LAWS 2099.02 Legal Profession, unless planning to complete in Year 4
  • One course from the "oral advocacy" basket, unless planning to complete in Year 4 (list of basket courses to be included in annual registration materials)
  • 3 to 5 credit hours of law courses from the “Business Law” area (see below)
  • At least one, but no more than two, courses that satisfy the major paper requirement

Year 4

 MBA:

JD:23-25 credits, including:

  • 7 to 9 credit hours of law courses from the "Business Law" area
  • LAWS 2099.02: Legal Profession, unless completed in Year 3
  • At least one, but no more than two, courses that satisfy the major paper requirement

The third and fourth year courses may be done in a different order, with permission, except for the required Year 3 JD courses.

Courses in the Business Law area

LAWS 2002.04: Business Associations 
LAWS 2006.03: Corporate Finance
LAWS 2008.04: Evidence
LAWS 2010.02: Insurance Law 
LAWS 2029.04: Taxation I 
LAWS 2033.03: Equity and Trusts 
LAWS 2056.03: International Trade Law 
LAWS 2059.02: Taxation III 
LAWS 2079.02: Oil and Gas Law 
LAWS 2081.02: Bankruptcy and Insolvency
LAWS 2106.02: Taxation of Corporations 
LAWS 2121.02: Wills and Estates
LAWS 2129.03: Corporate Transactions 
LAWS 2137.03: Regulation of Financial Institutions 
LAWS 2138.03: Securities Regulation
LAWS 2144.03: Corporate Securities Law Moot
LAWS 2145.02: Sale of Goods 
LAWS 2153.03: Business and Environmental Law 
LAWS 2169.03: Competition Law 
LAWS 2170.03: Information Technology Transactions 
LAWS 2204.03: Secured Transactions
LAWS 2216:03: Current Issues in Corporate Law
LAWS 2232.04: Real Estate Transactions
LAWS 2245:03: Bowman National Tax Moot
LAWS 2269.03: Taxation II
LAWS 2373:03: International Investment Law

Students intending to make an application for the joint JD/MBA program should inquire directly to: mba@dal.ca and to admissions@dal.ca (LAW).