Description:
A Private Research University is seeking to hire a part-time lecturer to teach Transactional Contracts during the Spring 2025 semester. The three-credit class, which is offered exclusively to students in the LL.M. in American Law Program, has a maximum enrollment of 12 students and will meet once a week (13 classes total) for two hours, in person, on the BU Law campus.Transactional Contracts: Drafting, Structuring and Negotiating Agreements Under U.S. Law
The curriculum for this course is based on, and is substantially similar to, the curriculum for Contract Drafting, the foundational skills course within BU Law's Transactional Law Program. This course is for foreign-trained LL.M. students. It teaches students basic principles and skills of drafting and analyzing commercial and transaction agreements under U.S. state laws, with a focus on recognizing, and addressing through contractual provisions, key business issues in transactions. While the course utilizes lectures to introduce various contract concepts and techniques essential for drafting and reviewing commercial and transaction agreements, it requires that students complete both in-class exercises and out-of-class assignments as a means of building basic drafting skills and a solid understanding of the structure and operation of contractual provisions in a business transaction under U.S. law. The course utilizes a textbook, Tina L. Stark and Monica L. Llorente, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do (3rd Ed., 2024), but substantially all of the course materials, including power point presentations, lecture notes, graded drafting assignments and grading rubrics, have been developed by the Transactional Law Program.
Required Skills:
A JD degree, plus significant experience drafting and working with contracts, preferably in a transactional practice setting, are required. Prior teaching experience, or other experience training or mentoring students or other attorneys, is preferred. Prior experience working with international students, or in an international setting, is a plus.
