Contracts

by John P. Dawson, William Burnett Harvey, Stanley D. Henderson

With the appearance of the Ninth Edition, this book begins its forty-ninth year. Throughout its long history, this casebook has relied on classic cases to capture the fundamental principles of contract law, and this edition reinforces this tradition.This new edition preserves and builds upon the book’s distinctive character, especially its use of canonical cases, its sensitivity to the history and evolution of doctrine, and its close attention to the legal consequences of breach. As before, this edition eschews any distinctive take on the law of contracts and thus allows each teacher using the book a broad range of choice on what to bring in to channel or expand classroom discussion.The most visible alteration in this edition is a restructuring and reordering of some material both to underscore basic themes and put in clearer perspective the developments of the twentieth century.An effort has been made to deal with the “coverage” problem in an increasingly cro

Genres: Law

1006 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1998

Reviews

[Anna Moiseieva]

contracts expert now basically (contract = offer + acceptance + consideration 😎) glad to know about hawkins v. mcgee (hairy hand case) of on the basis of sex and paper chase fame. Though obviously much of law school is applicable to everyday life, this felt particularly salient, esp w contributions from our prof. I can like read the terms and conditions on things and understand what they mean now???

[Kelly Mai]

i was not o......K.

[Kayla]

did not enjoy (fun pictures tho)

[Kienie]

We read the whole thing. The. Whole. Thing. It wasn't very helpful, at least not the way we were taught. Basically there's an into, a couple of "main" cases that illustrate the rule/s and mini-cases that either elaborate or show alternative applications. It was difficult to parse through because we had to work through about 60 pages/week, meaning that we were responsible for knowing the facts of a large volume of cases in class. Too large to really process properly.

[Jeff Brenner]

Contracts are actually more interesting than you would think.

[Cpadula]

I simply cannot put it down.

[Caleb]

Way too long; the only reason it gets rated this highly is that there are photos (of terrible quality), one of which is a head-on picture of a cow and the caption reads "Black Angus in Pensive Mood."

[Cary S]

Not terribly clear. Will rely on supplements to make sense of a lot of the circumlocution, etc.