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2.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the rapidly evolving field of holding company law. Major themes include why and how holding companies are regulated and the regulatory reform process. Emphasis is placed on the dynamics of holding company regulation, including the tension between economic forces seeking to create a seamless financial services industry and the impulse of regulators and others to segregate activities by type of institution. Origins, trends in interpretation and proposals for legislative change of the Federal Bank Holding Company and Savings and Loan Holding Company Acts, the successor federal banking law to the Glass-Steagall Act, and the Insurance Holding Company Systems Regulatory Acts are examined and compared. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
The course provides an overview of the tax considerations of financial service entities and financial products. The topics to be covered will depend in part on the types of financial products and entities in use at the time of the course. The course will focus on the tax issues associated with mutual funds, unit trusts, real estate investment trusts, mortgage-backed securities, asset securitization, tax-exempt bonds, stock dividends, hedging transactions, wash sales, short sales and straddles. In addition, the course will cover the tax aspects of property-casualty and life insurance companies (including the definition of insurance, the calculation of reserves, and tax aspects of insurance products). The course is structured to provide the financial services lawyer with a simple explanation of the most common tax issues that arise in structuring financial service entities and transactions. At least one law school course in federal income taxation is assumed. Although there are no formal prerequisites, familiarity with basic financial products is helpful. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
This course treats the civil, administrative and criminal aspects of the major types of litigation involving financial services firms. Particular attention is paid to the development of a coordinated response to consumer claims which may involve civil liabilities, responses to exchange or self-regulatory agencies and criminal prosecutions. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity for the advanced student of financial services law to analyze fundamental economic and political principles of regulatory policymaking, as well as the historical context in which the regulation of the US financial markets has developed. Topics to be examined include: the regulatory legacy of the Populist and Progressive movements; market failure and public interest rationales for regulation; the role of transaction costs in the organization of market activity; cost-benefit analysis and the dynamics of risk regulation; public choice theory and the analysis of government failure; and regulatory reform. Assigned texts include works by Ronald Coase, Richard Hofstadter, Robert Reich, and George Stigler. In addition, each student will be asked to identify an issue of financial services regulation to examine in detail through independent readings and to direct class discussion about that issue. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the basic comparative law basis of the banking and other financial services markets in the major financial centers of England, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. Particular topics include: the extraterritorial application of the federal securities laws to distributions and trading abroad, including a review of the application of US antifraud and antimanipulative rules to offers and sales of securities made abroad; the problems of foreign bank secrecy laws to enforcement of the federal securities laws; the application of the registration requirements of the US securities laws to offerings made abroad; and the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to foreign issuers with securities distributed and/or traded in the US either directly or through sponsored and unsponsored ADR programs. In addition, attention is given to the taxation of both US and overseas participants, including when a user of international markets becomes subject to taxation requirements of a foreign country. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
The course examines the current markets in various derivatives products and the business and legal issues concerning them. Included are swaps and other OTC products and the valuation, accounting and regulatory problems which have arisen. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
This course provides an analysis of the international operations of US banks, the US regulation of foreign country banks which operate in the US, and the local law and regulation of domestic banks and foreign banks in Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany, and to a lesser extent in Japan, Mexico, France and selected other countries. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
Individual research under the direction of a member of the faculty. A paper suitable for publication is required. LAW 822, a required course for students seeking the LL.M. degree, is intended to provide students with a rich academic experience by challenging them to engage in a largely self-directed research and writing project to produce a paper of publishable quality relevant to the field of financial services law and/or financial markets. (Instructor's consent) 2. 000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 2. 000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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