This course examines real commercial contracts: promissory notes, agreements by companies to merge, agreements not to compete, and the like. We’ll focus on mechanisms that such contracts use to distribute risk. The course requires close reading of documents that are complex and often long. During Part I of the course, homework will be due twice weekly; during Parts II and III, homework will be due once weekly. There will be a mid-term writing assignment (anonymous and ungraded) and a final exam.
Ortman, Daniel W.