Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice

by Robert S. Summers, Robert A. Hillman

This casebook focuses not only on the rules and principles of contract law, but also on the lawyer's role in planning and drafting contracts and on the richness of contract theory. It has comprehensive coverage of contract law and related obligation, the latter including promissory estoppel, restitution, and tort arising in the contract setting. This book is primarily a case book designed to help students develop important analytical and critical skills, but also has ample notes, problems, and excerpts that focus on the nature, function, and limits of contract and related law. Features of the new Fifth Edition several recent cases that bring important issues up to date; new notes and comments about recent developments in contract law and recent contract controversies in the news; and new excerpts from the secondary literature focusing on major recent developments.

Genres: Law, Textbooks

1050 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Robert Samuel Summers, LL.B. (b. 1933) retired from the post of William G. McRoberts Research Professor in the Administration of the Law at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY, in 2011.

Reviews

[Colleen]

summers and hillman were high when they wrote this

[Julia Johnson]

unfortunately I still get confused by damages & battle of the forms 🥀

[Clé]

I’m only obligated to never talk about contracts again

[hanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

the worst literary experience of my entire life

[Erin Mehigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes, I am taking credit for my law school books.

[Jiewei Li · Rating 4 out of 5]

I LOVE CONTRACTS! FAVORITE CLASS BY A LANDSLIDE!

Hear me out: I think we need something like No Fear Shakespeare in Contracts textbooks for Cardozo opinions.

[Arianna Laufer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mmmmmmm we will see tomorrow

[Zach Welch · Rating 2 out of 5]

“I do not know which [four corners or contextual approach] to choose, and it is all dark to me.”
— Frodo in The Two Towers

Also, “There are older and fouler things than [the parole evidence rule] in the deep places of the world.”
— Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring

[Abby Weintz · Rating 1 out of 5]

i've never had a worse experience than reading 50 pages per class of 10 cases that were all abridged to the point of incoherence in 1L contracts. good riddance.

[Nikolai Rura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prof. Hillman is a legend