Contract Drafting

Note: There are multiple Contract Drafting courses available and no student may take more than one from the following options: LAW-321, LAW-221, and LAW-222.

This course has two different course descriptions. Make sure you read the correct one for the section in which you wish to register.

Contract Drafting 

• Course Number: LAW-321
• Course Type: Highly Specialized and Experiential
• Credits: 2
• Enrollment Limit: 16
• Description: This course will focus on skills employed in evaluating and drafting contract documents. Students will examine specific types of clauses, and learn their purposes as well as their advantages and disadvantages. Students will review and draft a variety of contracts, addressing issues regarding compliance with law, risk allocation, protection of client’s interests, logical organization, presentation, and clarity of language. The emphasis in this course is on the substantive aspects of contract drafting, although writing skills are necessarily a part of good drafting and will also be included. Written assignments will include revising proposed agreements as well as drafting agreements from scratch.
• Prerequisite:  Business Associations I is strongly recommended but not required
• Evaluation Method: Written assignments
• Capstone: no
• WIE: yes

Contract Drafting - Professor Chris Helmer

• Course Number: LAW-321
• Course Type: Highly Specialized and Experiential
• Credits: 2
• Enrollment Limit: 16
• Description: This course will focus on skills employed in evaluating and drafting contract documents and will include cross-border contracts as well as domestic, solely U.S. contracts. Students will examine specific types of clauses, learn their purposes as well as their advantages and disadvantages, and learn how the clauses will differ depending on whether they are being used in a cross-border contract or a purely U.S. domestic contract. Students will review and draft a variety of contracts, addressing issues regarding dispute resolution, governing law, risk allocation (limitation of liability and indemnification), application of potential mandatory foreign law, protection of client’s interests, logical organization, presentation, and clarity of language. The emphasis in this course is on the substantive aspects of contract drafting, although writing skills are necessarily a part of good drafting and will also be included. Written assignments will include revising proposed agreements as well as drafting agreements from scratch.
• Prerequisite:  Business Associations I is strongly recommended but not required
• Evaluation Method: Weekly written assignments
• Capstone: no
• WIE: yes