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Bundle: Contracts: A Modern Coursebook, Third Edition with Rules of Contract Law: 2023 Statutory Supplement and Connected Quizzing

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Authors
  • Ben Templin
  • David H. Spratt
  • Charles L. Knapp
  • Nathan M. Crystal
  • Harry G. Prince
  • Danielle K. Hart
  • Joshua M. Silverstein
Series / Aspen Bundle Series
BOOKMARK
Book length
924 pages
Publication Date
2024-08-21
Edition
Third Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
Description

Print Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543856453 as well as access to a digital version of ISBN 9781543850826 and Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798886144178 as well as 9781543850826 and Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

 

More about Contracts: A Modern Coursebook, Third Edition, this practical, student-centered text is a hybrid between traditional and problem-based casebooks. The coursebook provides a thorough discussion of rules, classic and contemporary cases, and an abundance of problems. Applying best practices in learning theory and textbook design, Contracts: A Modern Coursebook builds critical thinking skills faster and more efficiently traditional casebooks. 

Bundle includes Rules of Contract Law: 2023 Statutory Supplement.

Bundle also includes Connected Quizzing. Delivered through CasebookConnect.com, Connected Quizzing is an easy-to-use formative assessment tool that tests law students’ understanding and provides timely feedback to improve learning outcomes. Connected Quizzing requires a Professor Course Code to access the quizzes.


 
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About the authors
Ben Templin
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Professor Templin primarily teaches contracts, business associations, and remedies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Professor Templin’s work for Aspen Publishing also includes various study aids for contracts including PracticePerfect Contracts and Law in a Flash Contracts. Professor Templin also taught as a visiting professor at Mercer University School of Law and University of North Dakota School of Law as well as in summer abroad programs in Nice, France and Hangzhou, China. Professor Templin’s scholarly research currently focuses on contracts and contemporary law school pedagogy. Professor Templin’s early scholarship focused on public policy issues for topics ranging from social security reform to rule of law issues in China and the expression of the law in fine art. Prior to going to law school, Professor Templin had a 15-year career in magazine publishing, working primarily as an editor for print and electronic media for computer magazines.

David H. Spratt
Professor
American University, Washington College of Law

David H. Spratt is a professor at American University, Washington College of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Legal Rhetoric, and Family Law Litigation and Practice. David received a B.A. degree in Government and Psychology from The College of William and Mary and graduated summa cum laude from The American University, Washington College of Law.

Before joining WCL as a full-time faculty member in Fall 2006, David taught Legal Writing and Research at the George Washington University School of Law, Legal Analysis and Writing at Concord School of Law, and Legal Methods at the Washington College of Law. David is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars, and he is an active participant in state, local, and national bar associations and organizations. He is a past chair of the Virginia Bar Association, Domestic Relations Section, and the Northern Virginia Regional Advisory Committee.

In the past, he has moderated and/or presented continuing legal education programs on attorney impairment, vocational rehabilitation experts, defined duration support, imputation of income, amendments to the Virginia child support statute, legal ethics, legal writing, academic support, research and citation, the use of electronic evidence in litigation and family law cases, and child custody evaluations.

In 2001, David was a founding partner of Schwartz & Spratt, PLC, a family law firm in Fairfax, Virginia. Previously, David worked as an associate at the Law Office of Betty A. Thompson, Ltd., and at The Lewis Law Firm, in Washington, D.C. Professor Spratt writes a regular column, “Writer’s Block,” for the Virginia Bar Association News Journal.

In January 2013, David was appointed to the Virginia State Bar Section on Education of Lawyers Task Force on Legal Writing and planned and implemented a Legal Writing Bootcamp for practicing Virginia attorneys, which now continues annually. David served as the Civil Reporter of Decisions for the Virginia Court of Appeals for more than three years, stepping down in October 2021, and he currently serves as the Chair of the Virginia State Bar Section on Education of Lawyers. David is the 2021 recipient of the Washington College of Law Excellence in Teaching Award.

Charles L. Knapp
Professor Emeritus
University of California, Hastings

Charles L. Knapp is the Emeritus Joseph W. Cotchett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco. He joined the Hastings Faculty in 1998, coming to San Francisco from New York University School of Law, where he was the first Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law, a title which he continues to hold as emeritus.

Professor Knapp joined the N.Y.U. Law School faculty in 1964, and served as its Associate Dean from 1977-1982. He has also taught at the University of Arizona School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Copenhagen. He holds a B.A. degree from Denison University, a J.D. from N.Y.U., and studied at the University of Sydney on a Rotary International Fellowship.

Before embarking on his teaching career at N.Y.U., he was an associate attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, in New York City. In addition to his work on Problems in Contract Law and his published articles on contract law and other topics, Professor Knapp was the original editor-in-chief of Commercial Damages (Matthew Bender 1986) and of its companion publication, Commercial Damages Reporter.

His recent articles include Cases and Controversies: Some Things to do with Contracts Cases, 88 Wash. L. Rev. 1357 (2013), and Is There a “Duty to Read”?, 66 Hastings L.J. 1083 (2015).

Nathan M. Crystal
Professor
University of South Carolina

Nathan Crystal holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School), Emory Law School (where he was editor-in-chief of the law review), and Harvard Law School. He is Distinguished Class of 1969 Professor of Professional Responsibility and Contract Law Emeritus at the University of South Carolina School of Law and Adjunct Professor of Professional Responsibility at NYU Law School, where he has taught for eight years. Professor Crystal is the author or coauthor of four books, three on legal ethics and one on contract law:

  • PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY – PROBLEMS OF PRACTICE AND THE PROFESSION (Aspen Publishing Law & Business 7th ed. 2020 with Grace M. Giesel)

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (Aspen Publishing Law & Business 1998)

  • ANNOTATED SOUTH CAROLINA RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT (S.C. Bar 2020 ed.)

  • PROBLEMS IN CONTRACT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (with Charles Knapp, Harry G. Prince, Joshua M. Silverstein, and Danielle K. Hart, 10th ed. 2022)

In addition to his books, Professor Crystal has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including the Akron Law Review, Charleston Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Global Jurist, Illinois Law Review, International Litigation, Kansas Law Review, Kentucky Law Journal, Mercer Law Review, Mississippi College Law Review, Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy, North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Opinio Juris in Comparitone, Penn State Law Review, Saint Mary’s Law Journal, Saint Louis Law Journal, South Carolina Law Review, South Carolina Journal of International Law & Business, Wake Forest Law Review, and Washington Law Review. For more than fifteen years, he has authored a bimonthly column, "Ethics Watch,” for the South Carolina Lawyer.

Professor Crystal lectures frequently on matters of professional ethics to national, regional, and local organizations, including the American Bar Association, the United States Justice Department, and the Practicing Law Institute. He has held visiting appointments and lectureships at Arkansas (Little Rock), Charleston School of Law, Florida State, Hastings, Indiana (Indianapolis), Luiss (Rome), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa), Tanjin (China), Suffolk, and Sydney (Parsons Visiting Scholar).

As a practicing lawyer, Mr. Crystal is the managing partner of Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal, LLC with offices in Atlanta; Charleston, SC; New York City; and Washington, DC. The firm focuses in practice on professional ethics, international business, and data privacy. Professor Crystal has served as an expert witness, ethics advisor, disciplinary defense counsel, and internal investigator in hundreds of cases involving lawyers and law firms in all major areas of practice. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© since 2015 in the fields of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law.

Harry G. Prince
Professor
University of California, Hastings

Harry G. Prince is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where he taught from 1985 until his retirement from full-time teaching in 2017. His primary teaching areas were Contract Law and the Uniform Commercial Code. He also taught courses in Public International Law, Consumer Protection Law, and Race and the Law.

He served as the Associate Academic Dean at Hastings from 1991 to 1993 and 2007 to 2009. Professor Prince has been very active in the legal education community. He served as Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) from January 1999 to August 2001, and he was chair of the AALS Membership Review Committee from 1996 to 1997.

As a member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners Drafting Committee for Contracts from 1996 to 2002, he helped write contract law questions for the Multistate Bar Examination. Professor Prince also served as a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Accreditation from 2005 to 2007, and he regularly participated on ABA site evaluation teams as part of the accreditation process. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Professor Prince began his law teaching career at the University of Illinois in 1982, and he has also taught at George Washington University, the University of California at Berkeley, Howard University, and Golden Gate University. Professor Prince graduated from Temple University in 1977 and received his J.D. from New York University in 1980. He was a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Lee R. West in the Western District of Oklahoma from 1980 to 1981, before beginning practice as an attorney-adviser with the U.S. State Department Office of the Legal Adviser in 1981.

Danielle Kie Hart
Professor
Southwestern Law School

Danielle Kie Hart is a Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles where she teaches Contracts I & II, Sales, Secured Transactions, Law & Social Change, and Critical Race Theory. Professor Hart is a past member of the Executive Committee and the past chair of the Association of American Law School’s Section on Gender and Identity Issues and the AALS’s Section on Contracts. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of ClassCrits and the Commercial Law Amicus Initiative and is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Collective of Political Economy and Law. Professor Hart’s legal scholarship has covered a wide range of topics, such as access to justice, procedural reform, and civil rights, including class privilege, racial inequality, and same-sex marriage. For the last fifteen years, her work has focused on contract law, specifically, its politics, distributive effects and social consequences. Her articles have appeared in such publications as the Texas A&M Law Review, St. John’s Law Review, the iNevada Law Journali, the iWashington University Journal of Law & Policyi, iThe Theory and Practice of Legislationi, iLoyola of Los Angeles Law Reviewi, the iGeorge Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal,i iUniversity of Hawaii Law Review, iand the iLoyola University Chicago Law Journali. Professor Hart received her B.A. degrees (Economics and History with honors in History) from Whitman College, her J.D. degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Joshua M. Silverstein
Professor
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law

Joshua M. Silverstein is a professor of law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law, where he has taught since 2004. He teaches Contracts, Secured Transactions, and Jurisprudence (which covers both legal philosophy and constitutional theory).

Professor Silverstein has earned multiple teaching honors. Most significantly, in 2022, he won the Bailey Teaching Award, which is the Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching for all of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Professor Silverstein has also twice received his law school’s Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching—in 2010 and 2022. He won the Bowen law school’s We HEART Faculty Award in 2021, the only year the award was given. The We HEART prize was voted on by the student body at the law school.

Professor Silverstein’s scholarship focuses on contracts, bankruptcy, and grading in legal education. His publications have received national attention from other scholars, courts, and the media.

Professor Silverstein’s university and public service includes:

  1. Spearheading major curricular reforms at his law school,

  2. Serving in multiple leadership roles both at the law school and within the broader university,

  3. Performing hundreds of hours of pro bono legal services,

  4. Working on numerous bills and proposed constitutional amendments pending before the Arkansas state legislature, and

  5. Commenting for local and national media nearly three hundred times as an expert on bankruptcy law, constitutional law, civil procedure, contracts, and other legal topics.

Professor Silverstein graduated summa cum laude from Hamilton College with a B.A., where he double-majored in Philosophy and Government, and magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was also named to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, Professor Silverstein was a law clerk to the Honorable Suzanne B. Conlon, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. He then served as a litigation associate at two Chicago law firms—Mayer Brown and Freeborn & Peters—where he practiced primarily in the fields of products liability, bankruptcy, antitrust, business torts, and contracts.
Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2024-08-21
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
924
Print + Multi Digital Bundle
9798894102153
Digital Bundle
9798894102160
Subject
Contract Law
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