Basic Contract Law

by Lon L. Fuller, Melvin Aron Eisenberg

Contracts textbook

Genres: Law, Nonfiction

729 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Lon Luvois Fuller was a noted legal philosopher, who wrote The Morality of Law in 1964, discussing the connection between law and morality. Fuller was professor of Law at Harvard University for many years, and is noted in American law for his contributions to the law of contracts. His debate with H. L. A. Hart in the Harvard Law Review (Vol. 71) was of significant importance for framing the modern conflict between legal positivism and natural law. Fuller was an important influence on Ronald Dworkin, who was one of his students at Harvard Law.

Reviews

[Allison Wroten · Rating 1 out of 5]

i revoke!

[Ben Korn]

Got a little slow around intended 3rd-party beneficiaries

[widowanchor · Rating 3 out of 5]

better than the professor

[HeatherIlene · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this book for my 1L Contracts class. Since I haven't read any other Contracts books, I don't know what else to compare it to. Plus, my professor had a very unique way of teaching. According to her, some important cases were left out of the casebook.

I have read other law textbooks that provide a "notes and comments" after big cases or sections that helps clarify the material. I think this book would have been improved if it had that.

[Zoe · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this textbook incredibly difficult to learn from. It was poorly set up and sometimes made topics too complicated or unnecessarily confusing. It never had hypos that required you to apply what you were learning, it was essay after case after random explanation.

[Amelia]

well after 8 months I am almost to the end of this heavy, brown tome. And I have learned the basics of contract law, which is that you can get out of almost any contract, but you may have to pay.