Graduate Certificates

Wake Forest Law’s MSL Graduate Certificates provide transferable, academic credit for all coursework. Additionally, courses completed toward our MSL Graduate Certificate may be applied toward the MSL Master’s Degree requirements.

Admissions requirements for the MSL Graduate Certificates are the same as for the MSL Master’s Degree.

Earn one of our 4 Graduate Certificates in as few as 2 semesters. Note that selected course offerings within a given certificate may be substituted to meet a student’s workplace needs with prior director approval.

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Certificate Options

Business Law & Compliance (12 credits)

Navigate the web of administrative oversight in today’s increasingly regulated business environment.

  • Required Course:
    • Legal Foundations
  • Certificate and Elective Courses – Choose 9 additional credits from the courses below (maximum 1 elective course):
    • Advanced Contracts
    • Compensation and Benefits
    • Cybersecurity and Privacy
    • Detecting Wrongdoing with Investigations, Monitoring, and Audits
    • Employment Law for Managers
    • Financial Services Structure and Regulation
    • Healthcare Compliance
    • International Compliance
    • Labor Law
    • Law and Public Policy
    • Legal Research
    • Paying for Healthcare
    • The Business of Health Policy: Politics and Theory
    • Wage and Hour Law
    • Women, Law, Leadership, and Character
    • Business Law and Literacy
    • Private Law
    • Public Law
    • The Unauthorized Practice of Law

Health Law & Policy (12 credits)

Explore the policies behind the delivery of health services and navigate the legal framework of this rapidly-evolving industry.

  • Required Course:
    • Legal Foundations
  • Certificate and Elective Courses – Choose 9 additional credits from the courses below (maximum 1 elective course):
    • Advanced Contracts
    • Bioethics and the Law
    • Cybersecurity and Privacy
    • Detecting Wrongdoing with Investigations, Monitoring, and Audits
    • Healthcare Compliance
    • Law and Public Policy
    • Legal Research
    • Paying for Healthcare
    • Telemedicine
    • The Business of Health Policy: Politics and Theory
    • Women, Law, Leadership, and Character
    • Business Law and Literacy
    • Financial Services Structure and Regulation
    • Private Law
    • Public Law
    • The Unauthorized Practice of Law

Human Resources (12 credits)

Ask the right questions and reach the right business decisions with an in-depth understanding of labor and employment law.

  • Required Course:
    • Legal Foundations
  • Certificate and Elective Courses – Choose 9 additional credits from the courses below (maximum 1 elective course):
    • Advanced Contracts
    • Compensation and Benefits
    • Cybersecurity and Privacy
    • Detecting Wrongdoing with Investigations, Monitoring, and Audits
    • Employment Law for Managers
    • Labor Law
    • Law and Public Policy
    • Legal Research
    • Paying for Healthcare
    • Telemedicine
    • Wage and Hour Law
    • Women, Law, Leadership, and Character
    • Business Law and Literacy
    • Financial Services Structure and Regulation
    • Private Law
    • Public Law
    • The Unauthorized Practice of Law

Workplace Legal Fundamentals (12 credits)

Develop a broad yet focused foundation in the law and its relevance in the workplace, with an emphasis on the law governing businesses that provide goods and services.

Required Courses:

  • Business Law and Literacy
  • Legal Foundations
  • Private Law
  • Public Law