The Contract Management and Business Law focus provides non-lawyers with the understanding of contract law and the skills necessary to review contract language, mitigate risk, and ensure compliance with legal standards. This focus area also provides non-lawyers with an understanding of essential legal issues impacting the business world.  Students have the flexibility to tailor a schedule of courses to their own needs from these and other course offerings:

• Structure and Operation of the American Legal System
• Introduction to Legal Reasoning and Communication
• Contracts 
• Property
• Business Organizations
• Contract Management
• Legislation and Regulation
• Health Law Compliance
• Intellectual Property
• The Regulation of Work
• Civil Procedure
• Torts
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Written Project (minimum of 1 credit hour)

All courses listed above are designed specifically for students pursuing the MLS or Graduate Certificate and are offered online in an asynchronous fashion unless indicated otherwise. With some exceptions, students pursuing the MLS or Graduate Certificate through the Knoxville Campus enrollment option are permitted to take JD courses. Check the Graduate Catalog for a list of JD courses.

* Indicates live, in-person JD class.