Cases and Problems on Contracts

Book excerpt: Started as an experiment that has proven to be successful, the methodology in Cases and Problems on Contracts helps law students exercise analytic thinking and enables them to master basic contracts by working problems and dissecting cases. The material employs the problem method in tandem with case dissection to develop students? interest and increase their store of knowledge. Cases and Problems on Contracts includes sections on the agreement process, consideration, moral obligation, consideration, third-party beneficiaries, assignment and delegation, statute of frauds, and discharge of contracts. The editors have included many cases involving lawyers as contracting parties to illuminate various aspects of professional responsibility.