Spring 2026
Professor(s):
Steven Herrera (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 5:30p-7:30p TH Location:
Course Outline: Think you know contract law? Think again.
This course introduces the unique and complex world of U.S. Government Contracts Law (i.e., federal procurement law) that governs how our government buys everything from paper clips to aircraft carriers. This isn’t “Contracts 2.0”—government contracting follows its own rules, driven by statutes, regulations, politics, and public policy rather than pure market freedom. From contract formation to administration, students will explore legal issues central to the daily work of government contracts attorneys and learn how federal deals are conceived, contracted, and contested.
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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.
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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 (Instructor Preference)
