Product Description

Adaptable for instructors with various teaching styles, <b>PROBLEMS IN CONTRACT LAW: Cases and Materials</b> provides a balanced approach to traditional case analysis, problem-based instruction, and theoretical inquiry. Now in its Sixth Edition, this casebook offers a highly intelligent, contemporary treatment of contract law and maintains the success of its previous editions, in part, by including a variety of perspectives and contractual settings. <p class="copymedium"> <b>This edition retains the great features that have made the book a dependable source. It:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> incorporates a balanced blend of traditional and contemporary cases </li> <li class="copymedium"> includes explanatory notes and text that help students place cases in a larger context and explore related points </li> <li class="copymedium"> offers significant treatment of the CISG </li> <li class="copymedium"> maintains the Fifth Edition¿s reflection of complexity of current 21st century contract law with its varied strains and constant flux </li> <li class="copymedium"> provides three accompanying ancillaries: 1. an outstanding, detailed Teacher's Manual with sample syllabi for various credit courses, sample lesson plans, specific questions, and detailed analyses of all problems in the book 2. a companion statutory and case supplement: Rules of Contract Law, 2007¿2008 Edition (available August 2007) 3. a website with related material for instructors¿ use </li> </ul> <p class="copymedium"> <b>Many updates make this an even more valuable source for your classroom. The Sixth Edition:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> reorganizes chapters 2 and 3 dealing with the traditional basis for contract formation and liability under other theories </li> <li class="copymedium"> presents new material examining the strains increasingly exerted on the conventional contract law system over the past 10-15 years by new forms of contracting (electronic, etc.) and by the increased use of mandatory arbitration clauses in mass adhesion contracting (e.g., banks, communications providers, hospitals) </li> <li class="copymedium"> provides increased flexibility for professors who prefer to reorder the chapters rather than teach them in a more linear sequence </li> <li> shortens the notes, relocating student-oriented material to the website and professor-oriented material to the Teacher's Manual </li> </ul> <p> ;An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at <a href="http://www.aspenlawschool.com/knapp6" target="_blank"> http://www.aspenlawschool.com/knapp6</a> </p> <p> </p>

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10781 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1152 pages

Customer Reviews

Poor Casebook
zanandjayna's review sums up much about how I feel about this casebook.

Other complaints that I had is that the notes/comments sections are quite poor and are usually of little relevance to the case and/or concept you just studied. Also many of the cases have been poorly edited, leaving out key concepts that most prof's expect you to know.

All in all, this is a poor casebook. If you use it i recommend a good supplement.

Review pertains to 5th edition

Good casebook
KCP offers much analysis of each case, and explains the cases reasonably clearly. However, it is clearly a casebook to be used in a class; trying to read it without professorial guidance can be difficult. This is true of any casebook; though material and ideas are clearly presented here, the material itself is dense and complex. If you're a 1-L and have KCP as your casebook, you'll have an excellent grasp of contract law at the end of the course if you read everything your professor assigns out of the book. But do read it all.

Book Reseller
Book was clearly marked "not for resale". Good deal but not exactly what I thought I was buying