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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS LAW REVIEW Volume 3 - 2014 - Issue 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SYMPOSIUM ARTICLES: TRANSACTIONAL LAW PEDAGOGY GOING BEYOND THE FOUR CORNERS: REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING LETTERS OF CREDIT AS A SUBSET OF INTERNATIONAL BANKING LAW James E. Byrne....................................... ............. 1 DOING THE NUMBERS: THE NUMERATE LAWYER AND TRANSACTIONAL LAW Theresa A. Gabaldon ................................. ......... 63 DEAL DECONSTRUCTIONS, CASE STUDIES, AND CASE SIMULATIONS: TOWARD PRACTICE READINESS WITH NEW PEDAGOGIES IN TEACHING BUSINESS AND TRANSACTIONAL LAW Michelle M. Harner and Robert J. Rhee ............................. 81 M&A AS ONE COMPONENT OF A BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE Lyman Johnson and Sean Leuba............................99 SYMPosIUM ARTICLES: TRANSACTIONAL LAW PRACTICE THE STATE OF LAWYER KNOWLEDGE UNDER THE MODEL RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT George M. Cohen ....................................................... 115 BUSINESS LAWYERING IN THE CROWDFUNDING ERA Joan MacLeod Heminway............ ............................ 149 NON-PARTY INTERESTS IN CLOSING OPINION LETTERS HeatherHughes ....................................... 183 COMMENT NUCLEAR INTENTIONS AND IMPLIED PREEMPTION: How ENTERGY NUCLEAR VERMONT YANKEE, LLC V. SHUMLIN GIVES INDIAN POINT A FIGHTING CHANCE TO STAY IN BUSINESS Zachary Mason .............................................197 NOTE PAY-TO-PLAY: THE IMPACT OF GROUP PURCHASING ORGANIZATIONS ON DRUG SHORTAGES ChristianDeRoo ................................................227 AAA IA1 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BLR BUSINESS LAW REVIEW The AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BusINEss LAW REVIEW is published three times a year by students of the Washington College of Law, American University, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 615A, Washington, D.C. 20016. 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American University Business Law Review Print ISSN 2168-6890 Online ISSN 2168-6904 0 Copyright 2014 American University Business Law Review AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS LAW REVIEW VOLUME 3 - 2014 - ISSUE 1 ELIZABETH GRANT Editor-in-Chief KATHLEEN Hsu DANIEL FULLERTON Managing Editor Executive Editor THOMAS AHMADIFAR Associate ManagingEditor STEFANIE JONES DIANE GHRIST ERNIE C. JOLLY Senior Articles Editor JENNIFER SIMILE Senior Note & Comment Business & Marketing Editor Editors ELIZABETH HARRIS Symposium Editor Articles Editors Note & Comment Editors JONATHAN BROWN CHRISTIAN DEROO ARA ADEDUGBE JAIMIE BUCHBINDER SARA FALK CATHERINE BOURQUE ZACHARY DAVIS EMILY HETU Associate Articles Editors MONIKA MASTELLONE HEBA TELLAWI EMILY ROBERTS MICHELLE WINTERS JULIA SVINTSOVA SHENG ZHOU CHANG ZHOU Technical Editor Senior Staff JORDAN CAFRITZ JOSEPH GOLINKER ASHTON SIMMONS DARSHAN CHULANI DAVID HAN JEFF SIVEK SHERYL COZART JUSTIN HEMMINGS JASON SOKEL NATASHA DHILLON ALEX HERD WILLIAM STANLEY JESSICA DIPIETRO CHARLES HUANG LAURA TARABAN DESTINY FULLWOOD ZACHARY MASON CORINNE WARREN WILLIAM GENSCHOW BROOKE OLAUSSEN DAVIS YOFFE COREY GERSON NIVEDITA SATHIAKUMAR AVIE XU ZHAO Junior Staff LAURA ABOULHOSN AMANDA GRAMLICH ADDISON PIERCE ROBERTO ALBA BUSTAMANTE KAINE HAMPTON MARC POLLAK JASON BAILEY VESNA HARASIC EDUARDO RIVERO DORIAN BAKOGIANNIS DANIELLE HARTL KATHERINE ROSENBLATT SASHA BOSHART BREANNE HOKE LARA SAMUELS KENDRA CLARK CALEB JONES IYANA SMITH ANNA CLOETER HARINI KIDAMBI ANDREW STRAUSS HUNTER DEELEY BRANDON KINNARD JUHI TARIQ ELAINE DING KRISTIN LOCKHART RONNY VALDES CHARLES FRANK DYLAN MOONEY RYAN VAN OLST CHRISTOPHER J. 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Professor ofLaw Padideh Ala'i, B.A., University of Oregon; J.D., Harvard University. Professor of Law Jonas Anderson, B.S., University of Utah; J.D., Harvard University. Assistant Professor ofLaw *Kenneth Anderson, B.A., University of California-Los Angeles; J.D., Harvard University. Professor ofLaw Jonathan B. Baker, A.B., J.D., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. Professorof Law Susan D. Bennett, B.A., M.A., Yale University; J.D., Columbia University. ProfessorofLaw and Director ofthe Community & Economic Development Clinic Daniel Bradlow, B.A., University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; J.D., Northeastern University; LL.M., Georgetown University. ProfessorofLaw Pamela Bridgewater, B.S., Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; J.D., Florida State University; LL.M., University of Wisconsin. ProfessorofLaw Barlow Burke Jr., A.B., Harvard University; LL.B., MCP, University of Pennsylvania; LL.M., S.J.D., Yale University. ProfessorofLaw and John S. Myers and Alvina Reckman Myers Scholar Susan D. Carle, A.B., Bryn Mawr College; J.D., Yale University. ProfessorofLaw Michael W. Carroll, A.B., University of Chicago; J.D., Georgetown University. Professor ofLaw and Directorofthe Programon InformationJustice and Intellectual Property David F. Chavkin, B.S., Michigan State University; J.D., University of California, Berkeley. Professor ofLaw Janie Chuang, B.A., Yale University; J.D., Harvard University. Associate ProfessorofLaw Mary Clark, A.B., Bryn Mawr College; J.D., Harvard University, LL.M., Georgetown University. Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs Llezlie G. Coleman, BA., Dartmouth College; J.D., Columbia University. Assistant ProfessorofLaw Jorge Contreras, B.S.EE, B.A., Rice University; J.D., Harvard University. Associate ProfessorofLaw John B. Corr, B.A., M.A., John Carroll University; Ph.D., Kent State University; J.D., Georgetown University. 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