Contracts: Cases and Doctrine

Aspen Casebook Series

by Randy E. Barnett, Nathan B. Oman

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Cases and Doctrine features a mix of lightly-edited classic and contemporary cases that stresses current contract doctrine along with the essential lawyering skill of case analysis--how to sift through the facts of the case to discern the prevailing rules and theory. Randy Barnett and Nate Oman's innovative text introduces each case and provides the historical background of the iconic cases that make the study of contract law engaging. Study Guide questions help students identify salient issues as they read each case. Judicial biographies of each judge provide additional context. The Seventh Edition has been edited to delete materials that are seldom covered in a 1L class. This edition adds new cases that have been chosen for their topicality, facts, or pedagogical usefulness. New areas covered include so-called "smart contracts" and the relationship between restitution and contract. As always, we have tried to focus on cases with facts that will be easier to teach. New cases in this edition include a contract with a spy that turns out to be a double agent for the KGB, the effect of pandemics on contractual obligations, the gambling shenanigans of a royal prince, and emotional support animals. New to the Seventh Professors and student will benefit

Genres: Law, Nonfiction, Politics, Legal

1280 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1995

Reviews

[Amy]

Interesting for a textbook with lots of good background extras included. My only complaint is its heavy reliance on unintelligible old English case law.

[Edward]

I read significant portions of this case book for a two semester contracts class taught by Professor Chung at Albany Law School.

I think most students do not enter law school to study the law of contracts. I know I didn't. For whatever reason it was not what inspired me to become a lawyer. However, after reading this case book and being introduced to the topic the law of contracts is throughly interesting and something that I wouldn't mind studying more of or even practicing in the future.

Barnett's casebook presents the law of contracts in a very clear way mostly through case law buttressed by law review articles, treatise excerpts, sections of the restatement of contracts.

Overall, one of the better case books I have read

[Breanna McClarey]

I seriously gaslit myself into pretending I enjoy contracts, smaller textbook than other courses which was nice, please for the love of God edit the cases from the 16th and 1700s into normal English!

[Maddie Nixon]

Would not recommend 😔

[Sandra]

Hate the class, so that doesn't help with my opinion about this book, but the layout could have been much better in order to be more effective reading.

[Sam Andrus]

Cons, tracts, and everything in between -Jeffery e statement

[Dylan Kochan]

My professor wrote this book. I sincerely enjoyed his class. He also introduced me to a wonderful book called, "Law & Revolution: The History of Western Tradition," which analyzes how Catholic Papal reforms contributed to the Western legal tradition (this is one area of focus in the book that interests me).

[Tanner]

Contracts was not my favorite class, but I did like the supplemental essays and background in this book that helped you see law as more than just the text of the case.

[Claire]

Terrible. Do not recommend.

[Jackie Days]

My guiding light, my North Star <3 I love you, contracts

[Andrew Spratley]

As a law students- this book gives me pain and suffering especially when the professor cannot explain the topics presented.

[SK]

“What is a chicken?” is in fact a question this casebook attempts to answer.

[Ishani Patel]

Honestly the best casebook I had this semester. The cases were decently interesting and I was usually able to follow along with what was happening.

[MJ]

You cannot pay me any amount of money to go through this again

[Hana]

me when i lie and say i read this whole thing

[Jake]

A K-law casebook is not for everyone, but perhaps for your aspiring lawyer friend or significant other, or perhaps to shut up that precocious teenager who, having just read Nietzsche or Turgenov, thinks he knows everything. It that case, Barnett's choice to include short essays flushing out the historical background is a welcome departure from your typical casebook, which prizes a ongoing series of open-ended questions that are typically irrelevant to the course as taught.

[mz]

I found the prose and organization of this casebook easy to understand. Although I never had time to read them, I liked that Barnett included historical background on some of the major cases and that he included diverse perspectives on contract law.

[Patrick]

Hilarious and riveting ride through the development and current state of contract affairs in the USA (plus some riotous cases from 17th century England).

[sologdin]

by far the best course in lawyer school. this text is fine for it. works through ye olde English common law doctrines with proficiency.