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Spring 2024

5397 Contracts (FLLM Only) - NGUYEN,H- 23330

Professor(s): Huck Nguyen (VISITING)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Foreign LLM 

Time: 1:00p-2:30p  MW  Location: 311 

Course Outline: This course examines legally enforceable promises. The topics include contract formation, contract interpretation, the performance of contractual obligations, defenses to breaches of contract, and remedies.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face)   The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Prerequisites:  

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 5/1/2024 1-4  311    

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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: CHARLES L. KNAPP ET AL., PROBLEMS IN CONTRACT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (10th ed. 2024) Hardcover IBSN: 9781543856309 or Digital IBSN: 9798886144130. And CHARLES L. KNAPP ET AL., Rules of Contract Law, 2019-2020: Selections from the Uniform Commercial Code, the CISG, the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, and the UNIDROIT Principles, with Material on Contract Drafting, Sample Examination Questions, and Supplemental CISG Cases (2019) [or similar collection of Rules of Contract Law

containing Uniform Commercial Code and Restatement (Second) of Contracts] ISBN 1454894520, 9781454894520
OR: Digital Bundle: CHARLES L. KNAPP ET AL., PROBLEMS IN CONTRACT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (10th ed. 2024) https://www.aspenpublishing.com/DigitalBundle-Knapp-ContractLaw10e-2024-2024SuppCQ