Corporate Governance — areas of law

What this area covers

Governance work concerns the relationship among a company's board, its managers and its owners. Lawyers advise on director duties, shareholder rights, board process and the disclosures that accompany them.

Typical legal work

Advising boards and board committees
Preparing proxy materials and shareholder communications
Responding to shareholder proposals and activism

Where lawyers work

Law firms of every size
In-house legal departments
Institutional investors

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Corporate Governance. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

2 schools · 2 centers and institutes

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
New York, New York
- Center or instituteThe Heyman Center on Corporate Governance (school page, opens in a new tab)
NYU School of Law
New York, New York
- Center or instituteInstitute for Corporate Governance & Finance (school page, opens in a new tab)

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

1.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.