Resource Page for Teaching Deals

Teaching Resources

Syllabi

• Deals Syllabus Fall 2006
• Columbia Law School Transaction Studies Program
  • Sample "Deals Workshop" syllabus

Teaching Cases

• HBS Cases

  I've found that a lot of HBS cases implicitly or explicitly touch on legal issues, both in the sense of "law" as we normally think of it (statutes, regs, judicial opinions) and contract design. In fact, the cases that don't consciously try to teach law often provide better teaching material.

• Fleischer, The MasterCard IPO
• Fleischer & Smith, Columbia Venture Partners - MedTech Inc.
• Fleischer, Streetwatch
• Fleischer, Branding the Google IPO
• Millstone & Subramanian, Oracle v. PeopleSoft
• Ingrassia & Fleischer, Southwest Airlines

Academic Research

• Lisa Bernstein, The Silicon Valley Lawyer as Transaction Cost Engineer?
• William Carney, Preparing the Corporate Lawyer: Teaching Problems in Corporate Law: Making it Real
• Victor Fleischer, Deals: Bringing Corporate Transactions into the Law School Classroom
• Ronald J. Gilson, Value Creation by Business Lawyers: Legal Skills and Asset Pricing
• Ron Gilson & Bob Mnookin, Foreword: Business Lawyers and Value Creation for Clients
• Claire Hill, A Comment on Language and Norms in Complex Business Contracting
• Claire Hill, Why Contracts are Written in Legalese
• Ken Klee, Teaching Transactional Law
• Steve Schwarcz, Explaining the Value of Transactional Lawyering

Updated September 20, 2006