Categories: Business, Corporate, Commercial Law

Instructor(s)

Sharafi, Mitra

Course Data

Room 5223
MTWRF 9:55am-10:50am

Past Grade Distributions (Fall '22 and onward)
Fall 2022

Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the law of contracts. It will cover the following topics: remedies (including expectation- and reliance-based damages, specific performance, and restitution); formation of contract (offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations); Statute of Frauds; parol evidence rule; voidness or unenforceability (illegality, minor status, intoxication, mental incapacity, duress, undue influence, fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of duty of good faith, unconscionability); penalty clauses, restrictive covenants, exculpatory clauses, arbitration clauses, at-will employment contracts, promissory estoppel, constructive trusts, and warranties.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

· master the fundamental rules and policies of contract law;

· identify rules and policy in judicial decisions;

· spot and analyze a legal issue in a problem-based fact pattern; and

· recognize the various sides of a legal issue and effectively articulate the strengths and weaknesses of each.

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