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256.81 sec. 001 - Contracts & Sales for LLMs (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Richard M Trachok (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
MW 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM
Location: Law 105
From January 13, 2025
To April 29, 2025
Course End: April 29, 2025
Class Number: 32881
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 35
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 100
As of: 11/26 12:15 AM
This course explores the common law principles governing the formation of, limits on the ability to enter into, breach and enforcement of, and remedies relating to, contracts. Students will also study the principles embodied in the Uniform Commercial Code, a model for the law shaping sales and other commercial transactions.
This course is designed for LL.M. students (i) for whom taking such a course is a prerequisite to taking a bar exam and (ii) from a country with a civil law tradition wanting exposure to common law contract principles.
Instructor Biography: Rick Trachok is Senior Counsel with McDonald Carano, focusing his practice on international regulatory and gaming law. Clients frequently turn to Mr. Trachok for his knowledge of the complexities of the licensing issues facing European companies, as well as his understanding of the unique aspects of European ownership structures, financing and culture. He has been involved in many acquisitions and joint ventures of European, Russian and Latin American companies on behalf of European clients.
Mr. Trachok currently serves as on the Compliance for the German gaming Group, Gauselmann AG and has been responsible for obtaining gaming licenses for them in approximately 200 jurisdictions throughout the world. He is also Chairman of the Global Compliance and Governance Committee for the world’s largest gaming manufacturer and lottery company, International Game Technology (IGT), a UK PLC traded on the NYSE.
Mr. Trachok has served as the Chair of the Nevada Board of Bar Examiners since 2000 and has been a member of the board since 1991. He also was a member of the University of Nevada System Board of Regents, serving as its Vice-chair from 2013-2015 and its Chair from 2015-2017.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
Exam Notes: (F) In-class final exam
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Exam Length: 3 hours
Course Category: LL.M.-Only Classes
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Business Law
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Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Basic Contract Law, Concise Edition, 11th Edition
Fuller Eisenberg and Gergen
Edition: 11th Edition
Publisher: west
ISBN: 9781685610319
e-Book Available: unknown
Price: To Be Determined - Contract Law: Selected Source Materials Annotated 2022 Edition
Steven Burton, Melvin Eisenberg
Edition: 2022
Publisher: West Academic
ISBN: 9781636599052
e-Book Available: unknown
Price: 72.50
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Law-school Bookstore prices are unavailable at this time.