A joint Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) with integrated Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) program is offered by the Desautels Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Law. This joint program provides students the opportunity to pursue legal and administrative aspects of business. Successful candidates graduate with M.B.A., B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees, a trio that prepares them for careers in private and public enterprise, as well as government service.
Students complete 45 credits for the M.B.A. degree and 93 credits for the integrated B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees for a total of 138 credits.
Complementary - Management
Students complete 27 complementary credits toward the M.B.A. degree selected as follows:
15 credits toward one of the 4 concentrations of the M.B.A. degree: Finance, Global Leadership, Marketing, or Technology and Innovation Management.
12 additional credits at the 500 level or above offered by the Desautels Faculty of Management to complete the 27 credits of complementary courses.
Note: Students may have to follow one or all components of the M.B.A. Base Camp (Statistics, Math for Finance, Financial Accounting) prior to commencement of the M.B.A. depending on their academic background.
Required - Law
| LAWG 100D1 | (3) | Contractual Obligations |
| LAWG 100D2 | (3) | Contractual Obligations |
| LAWG 101D1 | (2.5) | Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts |
| LAWG 101D2 | (2.5) | Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts |
| PRAC 147D1 | (1.5) | Introductory Legal Research |
| PRAC 147D2 | (1.5) | Introductory Legal Research |
| PRAC 155D1 | (1) | Legal Writing, Mooting and Advanced Legal Research |
| PRAC 155D2 | (1) | Legal Writing, Mooting and Advanced Legal Research |
| PROC 124D1 | (2) | Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure |
| PROC 124D2 | (2) | Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure |
| PROC 200 | (3) | Advanced Civil Law Obligations |
| PRV1 144D1 | (2.5) | Civil Law Property |
| PRV1 144D2 | (2.5) | Civil Law Property |
| PRV3 200 | (3) | Advanced Common Law Obligations |
| PRV4 144 | (4) | Common Law Property |
| PUB2 101D1 | (3) | Constitutional Law |
| PUB2 101D2 | (3) | Constitutional Law |
| PUB2 111 | (3) | Criminal Law |
| PUB3 116D1 | (2) | Foundations |
| PUB3 116D2 | (2) | Foundations |
| WRIT 400D1 | (3) | Senior Essay |
| WRIT 400D2 | (3) | Senior Essay |
Complementary - Law
Students complete 39 credits of complementary courses toward the B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees.
Complementary - Law, Civil Law
Students complete 4.5 credits of civil law courses. The following courses count for their full credit weight as civil law.
| BUS2 461 | (3) | Insurance |
| LEEL 470 | (3) | Employment Law |
| PROC 349 | (3) | Lease, Enterprise, Suretyship |
| PRV1 255 | (3) | Successions |
| PRV2 270 | (3) | Law of Persons |
| PRV4 448 | (3) | Administration Property of Another and Trusts |
Complementary - Law, Civil & Common Law
The following trans-systemic courses count half their credit weight toward the civil law requirement of 4.5 credits and half their credit weight toward the common law requirement of 4.5 credits.
| BUS2 365 | (4) | Business Associations |
| CMPL 522 | (3) | Medical Liability |
| LAWG 200 | (4) | Sale |
| LAWG 273 | (3) | Family Law |
| LAWG 300 | (3) | Family Property Law |
| LAWG 316 | (3) | Private International Law |
| LAWG 400 | (4) | Secured Transactions |
| LAWG 415 | (3) | Evidence (Civil Matters) |
| PRV5 483 | (3) | Consumer Law |
Complementary - Law, Social Diversity and Human Rights
Students must take at least 3 credits from the following courses related to social diversity and human rights.
| CMPL 500 | (3) | Aboriginal Peoples and the Law |
| CMPL 504 | (3) | Feminist Legal Theory |
| CMPL 511 | (3) | Social Diversity and Law |
| CMPL 516 | (3) | International Development Law |
| CMPL 565 | (3) | International Humanitarian Law |
| CMPL 571 | (3) | International Law of Human Rights |
| CMPL 575 | (3) | Discrimination and the Law |
| LAWG 503 | (3) | Inter-American Human Rights |
| LEEL 482 | (3) | Law and Poverty |
| PUB2 105 | (3) | Public International Law |
| PUB2 451 | (3) | Immigration and Refugee Law |
| PUB2 500 | (3) | Law and Psychiatry |
| PUB2 502 | (3) | International Criminal Law |
| PUB3 115 | (3) | Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |