This course covers the central ideas in modern finance: net present value, discounting, and capital budgeting; portfolio optimization, the risk-return trade-off, portfolio performance measurement, and market efficiency; options and other derivatives; some principles of corporate finance; arbitrage, and tax considerations. Each topic is introduced with an emphasis on applications in legal settings. The course is intended to provide students that have very little or no background in finance with the essential vocabulary, tools, and insights to spot "finance related issues" in various legal practice areas. The problem sets, class discussions, and applied hypotheticals should allow students to develop the skills necessary to ask the right questions when confronted with problems that involve elements of modern finance.