Commercial Finance and Secured Transactions
Course Information
- Course Number
- L6392
- Curriculum Level
- Upperclass
- Areas of Study
- Commercial Law and Transactions
- Type
- Lecture
- Additional Attributes
- LLM NY Bar Exam Qualifier
Section 001 Information
Instructor
Ronald Mann
Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Professor of Law
Section Description
This course is a modern version of the traditional secured transactions course. In addition to topics covered in the conventional course, this course also includes transactions that use real estate as collateral in addition to those that use personal property; the traditional secured transactions course includes only personal property. It is intended by complement the Corporate Finance course by discussing the principal transactions through which businesses raise money outside the securities markets. The course emphasizes the documents used in actual transactions and includes a substantial examination of the law governing mortgages and of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The principal topics on the syllabus are Credit Enhancement, Creation of Liens, Maintaining Perfection, Remedies, and Priority.
Professor Mann will be selecting students from the waitlist.
- School Year & Semester
- Fall 2023
- Location
- JGH 105
- Schedule
-
Class meets on
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Points
- 4
- Method of Evaluation
- Exam
- J.D Writing Credit?
- No
Learning Outcomes
- Primary
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- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in a specific body of law, including major policy concerns
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in transactional design and value creation
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in various lawyering skills, for example, oral advocacy, legal writing and drafting, legal research, negotiation, and client communication
- Secondary
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- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in statutory and regulatory analysis, including close reading of statutes and regulations, and application to facts
Course Limitations
- Instructor Pre-requisites
- None
- Instructor Co-Requisites
- None
- Recommended Courses
- None
- Other Limitations
- None