LAWS4449 · Law
Boston College Law School
This course is for second and third year students. It is an exercise in the art of transactional lawyering, using commercial leases in a shopping center as a centerpiece. Through the study of a textbook, cases, statutes, and commercial documents, as well as through drafting and negotiation exercises, everything the student has learned in law school will converge on the problems that fictional clients bring to the class for solution. We will explore the choice of business entity, letters of intent, percentage rent, use restrictions, anti-trust, free speech in the shopping center, restrictions on transfer of interest by landlord and tenant, relationships and contracts with abutters, environmental issues, green leases, defaults and remedies, ethical issues, and bankruptcy. The course grade will be determined 50% by performance on drafting assignments and negotiation exercises and 50% by the extent and quality of class participation. There will be no final exam.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.9 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.8 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.8 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
5.0 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
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Across time
Available section-level results across semesters.
Fall 2023
1 sectionFall 2021
1 section