Product Description

This text seeks to answer the two main questions relating to contract law: What promises does society enforce, and why does it enforce them? Writing in a clear and concise way, Hillman provides a great overview of the daunting area of contract law with numerous illustrations.

This book covers the main topics of contract law typically treated in a first-year law school course on the subject, and handles topics such as bargain theory, fraud, remedies, contract interpretation, breach of contract, grounds for excusing performance, and third parties.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78444 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 379 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent prepatory book
I bought this and used it heavily through Contracts, and found it took be a very good supplement to the casebook. It covers the main issues in very good detail, but cannot be trusted as a single source for contract law of course - a short book could not be expected to do that.

The book is written in an informal but very information way, and cites many of the popular cases that will presumably exist in your casebook.

That said, if someone read this book before starting contracts, or read each chapter before reading cases relating to the material in that chapter, you'd probably get a more complete and faster comprehension of the material. This book is great for that purpose.

absolute must have
If you want to understand contracts, this is the book you need. I was very confused at the beginning of the semester, but I used this book to supplement my reading and ended up getting an A in the class. Very concise and readable, no confusing language. Good luck.

Excellent supplement to the Hillman/Summers Casebook
This hornbook makes reading the case book very, very easy. It summarizes all of the concepts from their textbook in a simple and concise manner. I highly recommend reading this book and staying a few pages ahead of your assigned text reading.