A casebook to be used as the primary text for first-year law school
contracts courses, written by a leading scholar in contract law.
Renting a home, buying a ticket, downloading an app--humans enter into
contracts constantly, often with little consciousness of the legal
implications. We typically become alert to the consequences only when a
problem arises. Contracting can increase our happiness by enabling us to
do things that we would be otherwise unable to do, but heartbreak
follows when things go wrong. This casebook, which can be used as a
primary text for a first-year law school contracts course, covers a wide
spectrum of quandaries that emerge in contract law, from problems of
overreach and interpretation to enforcement and fraud. Taken together,
these cases offer an exploration of contract pathology and introduce
students to concepts that are essential to understanding the vast
subject of Anglo-American contract law.
This book is part of the Open Casebook series from Harvard Law School
Library and the MIT Press.
- Primary text for a first-year law school contracts course
- Developed for use at Harvard Law School by a leading scholar in
contract law
- Diverse cases show differing approaches to a range of problems within
contracting
- Classroom tested
