Studies in Contract Law

by Ian Ayres, Richard E. Speidel

Designed to meet the requirements of 4- and 3-credit hour courses, the Seventh Edition provides an overview of contract law, featuring updated information on Uniform Commercial Code revisions and current trends in contracts scholarship. It includes discussions on the importance of promise and theories of promissory liability; contract remedies; and dispute settlement by private adjudication, including arbitration. In addition to a revised Teacher's Manual, the authors have also produced a CD-ROM Manual that includes the printed Teacher's Manual. It also features electronic briefs of each case together with suggested Socratic dialogue. These materials can be edited and printed for class use. It includes a sample syllabus; annotated table of contents with pedagogical purpose of each case in the book; and electronic copies of every case omitted from Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions (just in case we omitted your favorite case) that can be easily copied and distributed (permission granted

Genres: Law

1258 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, and is editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. In addition to his best-selling SuperCrunchers, Ayres has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and The New Republic. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.Barry Nalebuff is Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. His books include The Art of Strategy (an update of the best-selling Thinking Strategically) and Co-opetition. He is the author of fifty scholarly articles and has been an associate editor of five academic journals. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Reviews

[Aden · Rating 1 out of 5]

she estoppel on my promissory til i force majeure

[Fiona]

just finished all K readins for 2022... it's above me now... i request liquidated damages

[Corporate Clone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Carbolic smoke ball for the win

[W · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alexander of Macedon visited King Kazia beyond the dark mountains. He came forth, offering him golden bread on a golden tray. ‘‘Do I then need your gold?’’ he demanded. ‘‘Had you then nothing to eat in your own country that you have come here?’’ he retorted. ‘‘I came only because I wished to see how you dispense justice,’’ was the reply. As he sat with him a man came with a complaint against his neighbour. ‘‘This man,’’ he stated, ‘‘sold me a dunghill and I found a treasure in it.’’ The buyer argued, ‘‘I bought a dunghill only,’’ while the vendor maintained, ‘‘I sold the dunghill and all it contained.’’ Said he [the king] to one: ‘‘Have you a son?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ replied he. ‘‘And have you a daughter?’’ he asked the other, ‘‘Yes,’’ was the answer. ‘‘Then marry them and let the treasure belong to both.’’ He noticed him [Alexander] sitting astonished, and asked him, ‘‘Have I then not judged well?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ he replied. ‘‘Had this happened among you, how would you have judged?’’ ‘‘I would have slain both and kept the treasure for myself.’’ Can you suggest other alternatives?

[lore · Rating 2 out of 5]

not terrible but not great. the cases were pretty solid and some of them were even interesting but the casebook wasn't great at explaining contractual concepts and it was hard to actually build a framework or backdrop to apply the cases to. additionally, while i know that contracts cases may contain various elements, sometimes it felt like certain cases would be better suited for inclusion in another part of the book addressing a different area of contract law & like there was a more overpowering contractual question than the one that the book assigned a case to. since there are so many concepts in contracts and many of them, like the parol evidence rule, require thorough explanation, it would be nice if explanation and elaboration would have been focused on more heavily than the cases, especially since cases are so fact specific.

[Mayonez Sidorovich · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The question is, what is chicken?"

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Natalie Rubenstein fan club!

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty standard casebook.