Adam Badawi : Courses and Seminars
Legal Research and Writing
LAWS 30711
All first-year students participate in the legal research and writing program under the supervision of one of the six Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Laws. The work requires the student to become familiar with the standard tools and techniques of legal research and to write a series of memoranda and other documents representative of the lawyer's regular tasks. A prize, the Joseph Henry Beale Prize, is awarded for the outstanding written work in each legal writing section. The Bigelow Fellows also serve as tutor-advisors on an informal basis.
Autumn 2009
Adam Badawi
Legal Research and Writing
LAWS 30711
All first-year students participate in the legal research and writing program under the supervision of one of the six Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Laws. The work requires the student to become familiar with the standard tools and techniques of legal research and to write a series of memoranda and other documents representative of the lawyer's regular tasks. A prize, the Joseph Henry Beale Prize, is awarded for the outstanding written work in each legal writing section. The Bigelow Fellows also serve as tutor-advisors on an informal basis.
Spring 2010
Adam Badawi
Legal Research and Writing
LAWS 30711
All first-year students participate in the legal research and writing program under the supervision of one of the six Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Laws. The work requires the student to become familiar with the standard tools and techniques of legal research and to write a series of memoranda and other documents representative of the lawyer's regular tasks. A prize, the Joseph Henry Beale Prize, is awarded for the outstanding written work in each legal writing section. The Bigelow Fellows also serve as tutor-advisors on an informal basis.
Winter 2010
Adam Badawi
Contract Theory
LAWS TBD
This course surveys the current literature on contract theory with an emphasis on questions of interpretation, problems posed by remedies, and the results of empirical studies. The section on interpretation covers modern takes on the debate between formal interpretation, which seeks to minimize the use of evidence that is outside the four corners of a contract, and contextual interpretation, which emphasizes the dynamic character of contracts. The remedies module looks at the classic literature on the expectation interest and modern skepticism about that goal. Coverage of empirical work focuses on several areas including what these studies say about the truth of common perceptions about consumer contracts and the results of controlled experiments that look at changes in behavior based on changes in contract terms. Grades are based on response papers and class participation. Some background in economics, such as an undergraduate course in microeconomics or the Law and Economics course at the Law School, is helpful, but not required.
Spring 2010
Adam Badawi
