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Business-law foundations
Build a working vocabulary for the legal principles that shape organizations, agreements, and commercial activity.
The University of Texas at Austin
Business law at the University of Texas.
A student-led organization at the University of Texas at Austin, connecting students interested in business, law, or both. Members work through a practical business-law curriculum built around applied case problems.
Exhibit AThe Collective after Professor Richard Albert's seminar
Business lawStudied
All majorsEligible
Student-ledGoverned
UT AustinCampus
Who we are
How the Collective studies business law.
TCLC provides a structured, practical business-law curriculum built to help students understand the legal principles that govern commercial activity. Sessions are interactive: members work applied case problems, take opposing positions, and defend a recommendation out loud.
Open to UT students of all majors. No prior legal coursework is expected.
The program
What the curriculum covers
The curriculum moves from vocabulary to judgment, then widens out to the parts of the legal system that shape the commercial world.
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Applied legal analysis
Move from doctrine to judgment through interactive sessions and case problems drawn from decisions businesses actually face.
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Broader legal perspective
Learn from faculty and practitioners whose work connects corporate questions to public, constitutional, and international law.
Guest perspective
The future of the constitution
February 18, 2026
UT Law Professor Richard Albert joined TCLC for a seminar and Q&A on constitutional design, including his experience advising Jamaica on the creation of a new republic constitution.
The board
The executive board
The Fall '26 executive board sets the curriculum, books the speakers, and reads every application.
Where we are
Where the Collective meets
TCLC meets on campus at the University of Texas at Austin, a short walk from the Main Building.
On the recordCampus photographs are licensed from third parties and show University of Texas architecture only. Every photograph of people on this site is the organization's own.