Minor in Law and Entrepreneurship

A minor gives you the opportunity of having a second specialization in your degree. The minor is a bundle of three to four electives that can be chosen separately but if chosen together rewards a minor.

The minor in International entrepreneurial law provides a unique perspective on international law, legal startup and tech-law. The minor provides a 22,5 ECTS-package in the fall semester at CBS jointly with the students at the Bachelor of Science in business administration and commercial law program. The minor has a specific focus on international commercial law, startup law and legal block-chain law and web3. International commercial law is a general business law course focussing on commercial transactions from a legal perspective, concerning, commercial litigation and arbitration as well as choice of law for contracts and the regulation of international sales of goods. Startup law is a scenario-based course on various legal and adjacent strategic areas affecting a startup business situation. The course in Legal block-chain law and web3 presents issues concerning block-chain as a new technology and how it interacts with the law.

The minor consists of the courses listed below. The learning objectives and the regulations of the individual examinations are described in the online course catalogue. Direct links to the individual courses are inserted in the table below.

International commercial law               

This course has a specific business perspective to the law. The course presents and discusses the legal issues concerning how to operate on the global market, including the EU. The course consists of the legal framework for international contracts and international dispute settlement through arbitration and litigation. Furthermore, the course discusses how businesses comply with commercial EU law and international commercial law to enter, perform and if necessary, enforce international commercial contracts.

Startup law                                                                   

This course covers the legal areas most startups will face. This is for example intellectual property, data protection, tax or raising finance from the perspective of a founder who needs to anticipate legal issues that may be relevant for its startup or team members with an in-house counsel kind of role. It will manly apply an EU law perspective and in some case a national law perspective.

Legal block-chain law and web3

The content of this course is to present and discuss legal issue on data, IT and blockchain in general, for example bitcoin and Ethereum. The course will furthermore provide more specific and applied areas that raise legal issues such as smart contracts, distributed autonomous organisations, distributed finance, or non-fungible tokens, each contained in weekly modules. At this course an EU perspective will be applied, although in some instances national rules will also be applied.

The minor consists of the examinations listed below. The learning objectives and the regulations of the individual examinations are described in the online course catalogue. Direct links to the individual examinations are inserted in the table below.

Further information

Minor coordinator:

Christina D. Tvarnø cdt.law@cbs.dk

Study Board:

Study Board for HA(jur.)

How to sign up:

You sign up for the minor by choosing the code BJURM1000U. By choosing this code you will automatically be signed up for all three courses.