9780735598225
Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials share button
Charles L. Knapp
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 7.70 (w) x 10.20 (h) x 1.80 (d)
Pages 1115
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication Date 7/20/2012
ISBN 9780735598225
Book ISBN 10 0735598223
About Book

Adaptable for instructors with different teaching techniques, Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials can teaching by traditional case analysis, through problem-based instruction, or using theoretical inquiry. The balanced blend of traditional and contemporary cases combine with cogent explanatory text to help students place cases in a larger legal context. A significant treatment of the CISG is offered. Three powerful ancillaries accompany the text: an outstanding, detailed Teacher’s Manual with sample syllabi for various credit courses, sample lesson plans, specific questions, and detailed analysis of all problems in the book; a companion statutory and case supplement: Rules of Contract Law, 2011-2012 Edition (July 2011); and a vital Website with frequently updated related material for instructors’ use.

The Seventh Edition continues the previous edition’s reflection on the complexity of current 21st century contract law with its varied strains and constant flux, going beyond earlier editions’ emphasis on the historical progression from “classical” to “modern” contract law. Acknowledging the challenges increasingly exerted on the conventional contract law system over the past ten to fifteen years, the Seventh Edition explores new forms, such as electronic contracting. In addition, it considers the increased use of mandatory arbitration clauses in mass adhesion contracting (banks, communications providers, hospitals, for example). Even more flexibility is provided for instructors who prefer to reorder the chapters rather than teach them in a linear sequence. Shorter, sharper notes appear as a result of relocating student-oriented material to the website and professor-oriented material to the Teacher’s Manual. In addition, shorter problems give instructors more options between the questions in the Notes and Questions sections and the full-blown, integrated Problems.

Hallmark features:

Adaptable for various teaching techniques - traditional case analysis, problem-based instruction, and theoretical inquiry

• Provides a balanced blend of traditional and contemporary cases

• Includes explanatory notes and text

• places cases in a larger context

• explores related points

• Offers significant treatment of the CISG

• Accompanied by three ancillaries

• An outstanding, detailed Teacher’s Manual

 sample syllabi for various credit courses

 sample lesson plans

 specific questions

 detailed analysis of all problems in the book

• Companion statutory and case supplement: Rules of Contract Law, 2011-2012 Edition (July 2011)

• A revitalized Website with frequently updated material for instructors’ use

Thoroughly updated, the revised Seventh Edition presents:

• Deepens the reflection on complexityof 21st century contract law