From navigating global regulatory complexity to leading through technological disruption, organizations and professionals across diverse industries now view legal fluency not as a specialized skill, but as an essential leadership competency.
Today's leaders must possess a unique blend of technical expertise, legal acumen, and strategic vision to anticipate rapid change, build resilient organizations, mitigate complex risks, and drive sustainable growth in an increasingly uncertain environment.
Designed for professionals with demanding commitments, the GPLLM in Business Law delivers this critical education through intensive weekend sessions that accommodate your professional responsibilities. Through comparative examples, case studies and real business deals, students will gain a solid understanding of the constructs of Canadian business law and add immediate value to their career.
Business Law Concentration in Numbers
16 Years of experience 11 Industries represented 87% New to Law 61% Hold a graduate degree
2025 - 2026 Class ProfileProgram Length and Structure
Students complete ten courses over one-year (full-time) or two years (part-time). The program begins each September with students enrolled in fall, winter, and summer terms. Classes are held in-person at our downtown Toronto campus on alternating Friday evenings and Saturdays, allowing students to balance their professional responsibilities while positioning themselves for career advancement.
Michael Liebrock, Managing Director at The Stronach GroupAn investment in education is always accretive; you learn, grow, and expand your horizons. My GPLLM has built a platform for me to understand the law and enhanced my understanding of how the law intersects business and civil society. All around, it was a great investment of time.
Mike Foorer, Business Development Advisor at GalenicapGPLLM was the perfect fit for my professional development. I feel that I have added new skills and aptitudes for the legal approach while already 25 years into my career path! The richness of the content, the expertise of the best-in-class faculty and the ability to interact with classmates across the spectrum of industry and geography created the ideal learning environment.
Curriculum
The GPLLM curriculum is carefully designed to provide comprehensive exposure to both foundational legal principles and the most current, relevant legal challenges facing professionals today. Students develop essential legal concepts and analytical tools while applying them to real-world problems, including those they encounter in their own organizations. Through individual and collaborative learning, students acquire skills and knowledge that immediately transform how they approach complex challenges. The critical thinking skills involved in "thinking like a lawyer" are, as our graduates tell us, genuinely transformative.
The GPLLM program balances structure with flexibility in course selection. Students choose from approximately 40 available courses across three concentrations. Each concentration is anchored by its own mandatory course, held Friday evenings during fall term. Students must complete at least five courses within their chosen concentration, with remaining courses selected from any concentration, allowing you to design a program that reflects your specific interests and career objectives.
Many students discover significant synergy between concentrations—particularly between Business Law and Innovation, Law & Technology courses—and find this cross-concentration flexibility to be one of the program's most valuable features.
Opportunity
The GPLLM in Business Law equips you to make more legally informed leadership decisions. You'll learn how to avoid legal friction for your organization, when to engage lawyers, and how to work with them effectively when you do.
Focus
Students study the laws governing tax, contracts, intellectual property, competition, and insolvency. They cover pressing questions of regulation and compliance in relation to human resources, privacy, artificial intelligence, and cyber security.
Outcome
Gain strong legal judgment grounded in the concepts you learn from analyzing comparative examples, case studies, and real business deals. Leveraging your fluency in legal language and concepts, you'll expand your role as a thought partner at your organization.