Contracts: Law, Theory, and Practice

by Daniel Markovits, Gabriel Rauterberg

Law, Theory, and Practice has two principal first, to present the basic doctrine of contracts in a comprehensive and coherent fashion; and second, to encourage a rigorous and interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the values and principles that inspire the law. The book provides a systematic survey of contract law while weaving in perspectives from economics, philosophy, sociology, and legal theory, to show how these disciplines can be used to both illuminate and criticize the law as it stands. The book’s treatments of “law and” ideas are designed to be free-standing, making the book an excellent introduction to interdisciplinary legal thought for students without prior training in other fields.

927 pages, Hardcover

Published July 5, 2018

Reviews

[Guadlupe Orozco · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a 1L, the portions of the textbook dealing with economic theory were just way too complex for a first-year. They need to be simpliied. However, I will give props to the authors. The portions of the textbook that followed most cases gave a summary of the cases that explained it better than the case itself.