Law of Public-Private Partnerships

Section 1, Fall 22

Schedule Information

Enrollment: 13/16
Credits: 3
Days* Time Room Start Date End Date
  • R
  • 1540-1740
  • WB121
09/01/2022 12/01/2022
*“R” means Thursday

Course Description

This course will focus on the legal topics required to successfully negotiate and document a public private partnership for a real estate transaction. The class will be taught using case studies and creative problem solving.

Course Requirements

Exam Info:
Final Type (if any): None
Description: None

Written Work Product
Written Work Product: Students will work in teams of four to negotiate and draft a comprehensive development agreement for a public private partnership. Additionally, each student will be required to draft two research memoranda on two of the legal topics covered during the course of the semester.

Other Work
Students will prepare a PowerPoint presentation on one of the research topics and present same to the class.

Other Course Details
Prerequisites: Because the credits in this course count toward the JD Program Professional Skills requirement, JD candidates will be given enrollment priority for this class. Concurrencies: None
Mutually Exclusive With: None
Laptops Allowed: Yes
First Day Attendance Required: No
Course Resources: To be announced.
Course Notes: Each student will be evaluated based on class participation, the research memoranda and the PowerPoint presentation; a group grade will be assigned for the comprehensive development agreement project.

Graduation Requirements

*Satisfies Writing Requirement: No
**Credits For Prof. Skills Requirement: Yes
Satisfies Professional Ethics: No

*If “Yes,” then students are required to submit a substantial research paper in this course, which means students do not need to submit any form to SRO for this paper to meet their upper-level writing requirement. If “No,” then students must submit a “special request” e-form to SRO (available via LawWeb) no later than five weeks after the start of the term for a paper in this class to be counted toward the upper-level writing requirement.

**Yes indicates course credits count towards UVA Law’s Prof. Skills graduation requirement, not necessarily a skills requirements for any particular state bar.

Schedule No.
122819876
Law No.
LAW7187
Modified Type
Simulation
Cross Listed: No
Cross-Listed Course Mnemonic:
Public Syllabus Link: None
Evaluation Portal Via LawWeb Opens: Wednesday, November 30, 12:01 AM
Evaluation Portal Via LawWeb Closes: Friday, December 09, 11:59 PM
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