HOW TO APPLY

LAW 599 & LAW 589: Entrepreneurial Law & Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, Fall 2022 & Winter 2023

Professor Faith Majekolagbe

Join me for an INFORMATION SESSION (on Zoom)

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 | 5 pm – 6 pm

Meeting ID: 982 9188 6090 | Passcode: 979933

LAW 599 Entrepreneurial Law is a three-credit Winter term course designed to provide students with substantive knowledge to address legal issues that generally confront emerging businesses (start-ups) and social enterprises at the early stage. Topics that will be covered include forms of business structures; legal regulation of social enterprises; traditional and non-traditional forms of financing an enterprise including crowdfunding; legal aspects of business operations like hiring, advertisements, offering internet and web-based services; and building and protecting intangible assets portfolio, including conducting intellectual property due diligence.

LAW 589 Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC) is a full-year (3 credit) course that consists of weekly (one-hour) practical sessions and clinical placement at the River City Venture Clinic. Students in the ELC will provide legal support on a range of legal issues to early-stage, traditional start-ups and social enterprises and participate in community outreach and other events designed to educate entrepreneurs about legal issues. Students will experientially learn how to draft important documents like shareholder’s agreements, crowd-funding agreements, terms of use, privacy policies, licensing agreements and other documents common to the business operations of start-ups.

Application into the ELC is through application and interview only and selected students must also enrol in LAW 599 Entrepreneurial Law. Interested students are encouraged to attend the information session.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELC

Applications may be made to the attention of Professor Faith Majekolagbe by submitting a resume and a one-page letter explaining why you are interested in registering for the ELC.

Applications should be sent by email to vicedeanoflaw@ualberta.ca with the subject line “Entrepreneurial Law Clinic”. The application deadline is Friday, September 16, 2022.

More detailed information will be provided at the September 7th information session.