General Course Descriptions for Terms: contracts
711 - Contracts
721 - Contracts II
808 - Adv. Legal Writing: Contract Drafting
Learn the art and craft of transactional drafting in this highly interactive, practice-focused course. Learn how to address and resolve challenges in business transactions by drafting precise and clear contractual provisions. Most attorneys work with contracts at some point in their careers, and understanding how contracts are negotiated and drafted is critical for both transactional attorneys and commercial litigators. In this course, students will learn to recognize and understand common contractual provisions, structure an effective and elegant agreement, detect drafting landmines, appreciate the functions and nuances of boilerplate language, and negotiate and draft a variety of contract provisions.
940 - Race and Property
Racist policies are any written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people and produce or sustain racial inequity between racial groups. To better understand racist policies that have undermined property ownership for racial minorities in America, students will learn about an array of topics, including racialized property tax administration, racially restrictive covenants, mortgage and insurance redlining, land contracts, subprime loans, urban renewal, residential segregation, and partition sales.