Contracts: Theory and Practice (Analysis and Skills Series)

This coursebook is based on the premise that the most effective way to help students learn legal analysis is to present the theoretical outlines of contract law within the context of the lawyering process. Author text and case excerpts are supplemented with numerous and varied problems which require students to apply analytical skills to practical lawyering tasks, including negotiation, settlement, fact-gathering, counseling, drafting and litigation. Highlights include:

• Integration of a wide choice of well-crafted problems (approximately 300), that allows the book to be used for either a "case" or "problems" approach
• Increased emphasis on preventive law
• Focus on recent, developing case law, while retaining influential or historically illuminating older cases
• Expanded textual materials providing background, freeing class time for analysis
• Integrated introduction to UCC Article 2, including statute of frauds (2-201), modification (2-209) and assignment-delegation (2-210, 9-318) provisions
• Appendix containing texts of UCC Arts. 1 and 2, and excerpts of 9, plus selected Official Comments; UCC and Restatement of Contracts are cited and quoted liberally throughout text