Problems in Contract Law 
Key features
Key features
Key features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Teaching flexibility | The book is designed to be used by instructors with a wide variety of teaching styles: socratic, theoretical, or skill-focused. |
| Multi-issue lawyering problems | The Problems require students to occupy a variety of roles, including counselor, drafter, negotiator, and advocate. Many of the Notes following these cases are intended to stimulate the student to consider practice-related questions. |
| Historical and theoretical dimension | The flow of the materials shows how contract law has changed and evolved, especially during the last century. The book also includes extended quotations and summaries from scholars representing all modern schools of analysis |
| Extensive teachers’ manual | The manual provides answers to questions raised in the notes, offers questions for class discussion, and provides analysis of all problems. The manual also includes sample syllabi for four, five, and six unit courses. |
| Challenging and helpful to students | Introductory text summarizes basic concepts, enabling the cases to focus on more challenging applications of doctrine; the Notes and Questions after each case help the students to analyze that case and to place it in context with other parts of the materials. |
| Rules supplement with problems and drafting material | The supplement accompanying the book, Rules of Contract Law, contains provisions from the Uniform Commercial Code, the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, the Convention for the International Sale of Goods, and the Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Editors' Notes provide background on each of these sources of contract law. The supplement also includes a problem designed to introduce students to the role and ethical obligations of lawyers in contract drafting, along with sample examination questions, some with and some without model answers. |