Revisits fundamental principles of legal analysis in a systematic manner, building and consolidating skills needed to master the details of varied areas of law, to analyze the relationship between facts and legal rules, to identify legal issues, and to make persuasive written arguments in support of legal conclusions. Frequent written exercises and in-class examinations will be given. This course is only open to students in their final year.

This course covers public policy and estate planning, intestacy, wills, probate and non-probate transfers, protection of spouses and children, trust administration and fiduciary duty, future interests, the rule against perpetuities, and briefly federal estate tax. 

This course covers landlord and tenant, introduction to estates and future interest, personal property, co-ownership, introduction to servitudes and title assurance and recordation.  

This course continues the examination of contract law initiated in Contracts I and usually includes a study of remedies, conditions, breach, assignments, and the statute of frauds.

Revisits fundamental principles of legal analysis in a systematic manner, building and consolidating skills needed to master the details of varied areas of law, to analyze the relationship between facts and legal rules, to identify legal issues, and to make persuasive written arguments in support of legal conclusions. Frequent written exercises and in-class examinations will be given. This course is only open to students in their final year.

This course covers the placing of successors in possession of property through succession and the use of inter vivos and mortis causa trusts. Subjects covered include capacity, commencement of a succession, loss of succession rights, acceptance and renunciation of a succession, estate debts, and trusts, both inter vivos and mortis causa. NOTE: Open to students during their final year only.

This course is a continuation of the course in Conventional Obligations as to the particular contracts of sale and lease in respect to movable and immovable property.

This course covers the devolution of property by intestate succession as well as donations inter vivos and mortis causa (by will). Subjects covered include the rules of distribution, forced heirship, collation, will forms, the accretion of lapsed legacies, revocation of legacies, donations inter vivos, and limitations on donations. NOTE: Open to students during their final year only.

This course continues the study of Conventional Obligations that was begun in LCIV L710.  Some of the covered topics will be Object of Contract, Damages and Putting in Default, Solidarity, and the Interpretation of Contracts.

This course treats the general provisions of the Louisiana Civil Code applicable to all contracts in Louisiana, the formation and effect of agreements, various categories of obligations and the means of their extinction.