Fall 2025

5358 Sales & Leasing - HAWKINS- 25905

Professor(s): Jim Hawkins (FACULTY)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law

Time: 1:00p-2:30p MW Location: 211

Course Outline: Both nationally and internationally, sales and leases of goods play a central role in commerce. This three-hour course uses a problem-based approach to look in depth at the Uniform Commercial Code Articles 2 (sales) and 2A (leases) to study US law. To study international contract law, it will also cover the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the CISG), which has been adopted by over 80 countries, including the United States.

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: Class 1: Read Assignment 1 and do Problems 1.1-1.6.
Class 2: Read Assignment 2 and do Problems 2.1-2.5.
Class 3: Read Assignment 3 and do Problems 3.1-3.5
Class 4: Read Assignment 4 and do Problems 4.1-4.2.

Final Exam Schedule:

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:

Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: Daniel Keating, Sales: A Systems Approach (8th ed. 2024) (ISBN: 9798889061960). Mann, Warren, and Westbrook, Comprehensive Commercial Law: Statutory Supplement (any edition after 2023) (2024 ed ISBN: 9798892076760)

Instead of purchasing the supplement, you can access the information elsewhere.