This book is the first among legal textbooks to examine a crucial component of real property practice: commercial lease law. Commercial leasing is the lifeblood of commercial real property development in the United States. Real property lawyers regularly represent landlords, tenants, and lenders in the leasing of commercial space. This is true in periods of booming real estate development, as well as in periods of economic downturn. Leasing practice is transactional and centers on a single negotiated document the commercial lease. By the end of a course based on this book, students will have developed a genuine understanding of the major terms of the commercial office lease, the goals and objectives of parties to the transaction, and the skills crucial to effective representation. Professors Bogart, Hammond, and Marsh have crafted a book uniquely suited to teaching this important area of practice. The book utilizes a sophisticated commercial office lease form promulgated by the ABA. Each chapter focuses on a particular lease provision. Chapters pull apart contractual language and terms of art, reveal the motivations of the parties to the deal, and, finally, examine the underlying substantive law. In addition to presenting interesting case opinions, each chapter provides numerous challenging, real-world problems. Chapters typically conclude by asking students to apply what they have learned to provisions taken from the much-publicized "Killer Lease." The book also includes a chapter explicitly discussing professionalism, ethics, and negotiations, and contains a series of increasingly challenging drafting and negotiation exercises that force students to pull together skills and substantive law lessons. This third edition of Commercial Leasing improves on its predecessors in many and substantial ways. First and foremost, the authors welcome Professor Tanya Marsh of the Wake Forest School of Law as a co-author. Professor Marsh is an authority in Property Law and is a Reporter for the new ALI Restatement (Fourth) of Property project. Just as importantly, Professor Marsh is a nationally recognized and sophisticated commercial leasing attorney who focused her attention on several specific areas of this text, particularly retail leasing. The text now includes a richer presentation of retail leasing issues, tied to true-to-life problems as well as documents and materials used in practice. In the time following publication of the second edition of Commercial Leasing, law professors and administrators have been confronted with the ABA s revised learning outcomes and assessment requirements. A commercial leasing course built on this text will meet many of these ABA requirements. This commercial leasing course presents substantive law and ties this law to actual documentation and transactions. The course permits teachers to analyze the law in a sophisticated manner and trains students to write in a legal context. The course directly confronts ethical issues that regularly arise in practice and the written assignments effectively simulate legal practice, providing an opportunity for formative assessment of student learning. Finally, the course is experiential in nature and should satisfy the ABA experiential learning requirements. Real estate, property, and transactional law professors who want to help students to develop a real understanding of a transactions-based practice will enjoy Commercial Leasing. This book will form the basis of an exciting elective real estate transactions course.

Commercial Leasing: A Transactional Primer

Marsh, Tanya

Bogart, Daniel

Hammond, Celeste

Business

Carolina Academic Press

2020 Date Book

Independently published

Attention property law professors! With eight in-depth case studies based on real cases, real people, real documents, and real problems, Real Property for the Real World is your key to unlock the door to experiential education opportunity with ease. Breathe new life into your existing syllabus with this supplementary paperback, designed specifically to infuse the 1L property law classroom with Early Lawyer Literacy (ELL) skills exercises that will deepen students’ doctrinal learning while adding excitement and spice to your classroom. Worried that this might take too much time away from your casebook or teaching? Have no fear: lawyers-gone-professors Way, Wood, and Marsh include all the rich detail from their interesting and complex cases (transactional, litigation) in simple format, equipping you with the questions and model answers you need to have fun with students without recreating the wheel, or even an exercise. Slip seamlessly into “real lawyer” mode as you draw upon their exercises, divided into eight basic issue areas (from adverse possession to partition to zoning) and sliced and diced into accessible parts that you can mix and match to customize the experiential experience. (Don’t worry, the authors provide simple tables breaking down the amount of time each part will consume both in and out of class, down to the minute.) Starting small? Use this book to allow students to explore online real property records or visit eviction court with the tools and tasks that will make property law come alive. Diving deeper, allow students to interview real clients (scripts provided) or review pleadings (simplified and redacted) to explore the Early Lawyering Literacy skills identified by the authors and recognized widely by the ABA and others. The sky is the limit with this new book, the first of its kind to bring meaningful experiential education opportunities into the 1L class in a way that amplifies traditional core concepts and doesn’t disrupt. Join in as property law gets its due on the cutting edge of legal education! "These case studies are a wonderful way to engage students beyond the core doctrinal instruction in a first year Property course. It is also wonderful as an assessment too, to be used throughout the course to test how well students can apply concepts to every day disputes, as well as to get them writing out. The Teacher's Manual is terrific and allows you to break down the case studies in digestible individual written and/or small group exercises. The students really loved tackling the case studies together and I was rewarded with some of the best exam answers I have received." ―Sheila R. Foster, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University “I have now used Real Property for the Real World in two first-year Property classes, and I won’t ever teach Property without it again. My students love the exercises from this book! Students come to class chattering about the work they did preparing for the classroom discussion; during class they are eager to discuss and dissect what they learned while doing the practical exercises; and after class the discussion spills over into office hours. The messiness of real-life lawyering is eye opening for them! In addition, scattering chapters from this book throughout the semester re-energizes the students on a periodic basis. Students love rethinking what they have learned after gaining insights about lawyering from the practical exercises, and they bring these insights to subsequent material. Finally, exposing first-year students to practical exercises about real lawyering reminds them why they came to law school in the first place. I love this book!” ― Lynn E. Blais, Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law

Real Property for the Real World: Building Skills Through Case Study (Building Skills Series)

Way, Heather

Wood, Lucille

Foundation Press

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