Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Kyung Lee (ADJUNCT)
RJ Shannon (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 9:00a-10:30a MW Location: 311
Course Outline: While bankruptcy has rightly been described as the last bastion of the generalist, it is also unlike ordinary litigation or transactional practice. Contested matters are litigated with notice and time for discovery measured in days, not months or years. Transactions involving millions and billions of dollars occur with only the barest of covenants from the seller. The Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure make that possible.
This course provides an in-depth look at the core aspects of business bankruptcy, using fact patterns and briefing from actual recent cases. You will become familiar with not only the law, but see how that law is put into practice in real cases.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
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.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule:
This course will have:
Exam: No
Paper: Yes
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
No book required for this course
Course Materials: The instructors will upload articles, briefing, and transactional documents that will form the bulk of the reading materials for this course. Additional reference to title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) and the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure are available
