This course examines the legal obligations that attach to promises made in a business contract or otherwise, including the remedies that may be available for promises that are not kept. The course examines the legal requirements for enforceable contracts, including consideration, consent and conditions, and the effect of fraud, mistake, unconscionability, and impossibility.

This course uses the lens of international debt finance to provide students with an advanced course in securities law, corporate law, and contract law. The course has both a theoretical component that involves learning the basics of this multi-trillion dollar market and an experiential one that involves trying to design a debt restructuring plan for the private debt of a country currently in or on the brink of crisis.

This course uses the lens of international debt finance to provide students with an advanced course in securities law, corporate law, and contract law. The 2-credit version of the course has a theoretical component about the basics of this multi-trillion dollar market but not the experiential component of the 4-credit version involving the design a debt restructuring plan for the private debt of a country currently in or on the brink of crisis.

This seminar will explore the current state of thinking about the relationship between identity, politics and legal regulation.