Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice

by Robert S. Summers, Robert A. Hillman

This book includes many important old and famous cases as well as many more recent opinions that facilitate comprehension of leading rules and principles. Authors also introduce contract theory. Carefully selected excerpts invite students to think beyond nuts and bolts, yet are neither too long nor too difficult for beginning students. Work also introduces and develops the concept of multidimensional theories of obligation in the contract field, explores close relationships between theory and remedy, analyzes divergent approaches to policing agreements, and systematically addresses various approaches to termination of contract obligation. This Summers and Hillman text is an exceptional teaching tool.

Genres: Law, Textbooks

1201 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Robert Samuel Summers, LL.B. (b. 1933) retired from the post of William G. McRoberts Research Professor in the Administration of the Law at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY, in 2011.

Reviews

[Colleen]

summers and hillman were high when they wrote this

[Julia Johnson]

unfortunately I still get confused by damages & battle of the forms 🥀

[Clé]

I’m only obligated to never talk about contracts again

[hanna]

the worst literary experience of my entire life

[Erin Mehigan]

Yes, I am taking credit for my law school books.

[Jiewei Li]

I LOVE CONTRACTS! FAVORITE CLASS BY A LANDSLIDE!

Hear me out: I think we need something like No Fear Shakespeare in Contracts textbooks for Cardozo opinions.

[Arianna Laufer]

Mmmmmmm we will see tomorrow

[Zach Welch]

“I do not know which [four corners or contextual approach] to choose, and it is all dark to me.”
— Frodo in The Two Towers

Also, “There are older and fouler things than [the parole evidence rule] in the deep places of the world.”
— Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring

[Abby Weintz]

i've never had a worse experience than reading 50 pages per class of 10 cases that were all abridged to the point of incoherence in 1L contracts. good riddance.

[Nikolai Rura]

Prof. Hillman is a legend