Courses - Advanced Contract Drafting and Negotiation: International Finance LAWS 2299   Advanced Contract Drafting and Negotiation: International Finance
CREDIT HOURS: 1
This one-credit intensive course, taught by an international lawyer with extensive commercial contract negotiation and drafting expertise provides students with an opportunity to develop their international commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills. The course will address the fundamental components of most international commercial contracts; basic commercial contract interpretation; aspects of contract risk management; and some basics of contract negotiation. The course will include an overview of an international finance transaction, the key elements of the transaction process and documents and drafting related drafting exercises. The course will be run as an interactive workshop. Students draft elements of a commercial contract and discuss how to navigate and resolve disputes about the design of particular terms. The workshop assumes that students will be negotiating contracts in a global world; as a result, it will address variances in the approaches of lawyers in different jurisdictions to contract drafting.
NOTES: This course does NOT fulfill the law school's major paper requirement. This course qualifies for the business law specialization in category “c”. Assessment Method: The course will be graded as pass/fail, based on class participation and negotiating and drafting a basic commercial contract.
PREREQUISITES: Business Associations
RESTRICTIONS: Students who enroll in Advanced Commercial Drafting: Private Equity and Public M&A cannot enroll in this intensive.