2L-3L Upper Level Lesson Topics

This lesson is a general introduction to resources and strategies for researching tribunals and truth commissions.

This lesson provides an advanced exploration of patent issues under TRIPS, an important international agreement that binds most countries, including developed and developing countries. This lesson aims to provide students with information concerning pressing issues. It is appropriate for students who have completed the Introduction to TRIPS lesson, as well as students who have some prior exposure to TRIPS, such as students who have studied the agreement in a class on International IP.

This lesson reviews the basic regulatory framework of the federal Toxic Substances Control Act. The lesson can serve either as a review of the statute or as an introduction to it.

This lesson is a brief introduction to the four major types of corporate acquisitions: mergers, compulsory share exchanges, sales of assets, and tender offers. It includes descriptions of different types of mergers: stock-for-stock mergers, cashout mergers, and triangular mergers. It also briefly explains multi-step transactions, such as tender offers followed by cashout mergers or sales of assets followed by dissolution of the selling corporation.

This is the first of a series of lessons dealing with issues concerning how a corporation raises the money it needs to operate its business. This lesson focuses on the types of securities a corporation may issue (debt and equity) and the reasons it may choose one or the other. The lesson also introduces students to the difference between common and preferred shares and identifies differences in the approaches of Delaware and of the Model Business Corporation Act. After completing the lesson, the student should know: 1. What a corporate security is; 2.

The first lesson on UCC Article 2A provides an overview of the article. Because Article 2A applies only to a "true lease,' the lesson assists the user in determining whether a transaction is in fact a lease.

The second lesson on UCC Article 2A covers the special rules for finance leases and consumer leases.

The third lesson on UCC Article 2A covers the formation of an Article 2A lease and some important provisions of the article, comparing and contrasting the provisions with analogous provisions from Article 2.

This fourth lesson on UCC Article 2A covers the default warranties given by a lessor under the article, and also explains how the lessor may disclaim the warranties or limit the available remedies.

The fifth lesson on UCC Article 2A covers claims made by other creditors against the lessor and lessee of an Article 2A lease of goods.

The sixth lesson on UCC Article 2A covers remedies on default for both the lessor and the lessee.

This lesson demonstrates how the principles of remedies are found in the UCC and provides some guidance for working with the UCC. This lesson may be run either as an introduction before the material is studied or as a review after it is studied.