CCW215 | Commercial Contracts – With Practical Case Studies

This course introduces various aspects of commercial contracts under contract law in India and various issues under these commercial contracts that arise in practice. The course is a taught- come-clinical course and so students will get to learn from practical real life case studies of various commercial contract situations. Also, the idea will be to focus of some of these contracts as they appear in the infrastructure sector. The issues can range from legal issues, commercial issues and techno-commercial issues that arise under these contracts and the applicability of statutes, delegated legislation and judicial pronouncements. An important and substantial part of the course will also deal with the government as a contracting party and important issues faced by lawyers while dealing either for or on behalf of government entities and approach that needs to be adopted to tenders. The other aspects of this course will deal with legal due diligence of commercial contracts, corporate law issues, bankability concepts and enforceability challenges. The type of study that will be discussed will be a cross – study i.e. studying the legal issues under multiple regulations or laws which deal with the same issue