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Contracts: Cases, Discussion and Problems, Fifth Edition

Authors
  • Brian A. Blum
  • Amy C. Bushaw
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
Teaching Materials
NO
Description
Table of contents
Preface

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The casebook’s traditional organization begins with formation and then corresponds to the sequence followed by the Restatement (2nd) of Contracts and treatises. Its concise, efficient presentation results in an optimum length for the course. Transactional issues such as drafting, client counseling, and negotiation are emphasized through the use of questions and small exercises throughout the text. Strengthening the text’s focus on contemporary methods of contracting, modern issues in standard contracts are explored along with contracts entered into electronically. International and comparative material offers alternative approaches for students to consider, such as those taken by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • A continuing focus on contracting via electronic media.
  • Fresh cases, problems, and text throughout the book to update the discussion and provide new perspectives on contemporary approaches to the law.
  • An increase in the number of problems and the conversion of former case notes into problems.
  • Revised multiple choice self-assessment questions for each chapter at the end of the book.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • The most important feature of the book is its deliberate design to be accessible and interesting to students and to provide them with materials that are challenging and thought-provoking, but also coherent and carefully organized so as to avoid unnecessary confusion.
  • The cases in the book are carefully edited and are selected for accessibility, interesting and attractive facts, and clear exposition. Modern cases, many of which are very recent, are emphasized, but the book contains a good selection of older cases that are iconic or continue to be the best cases for teaching a particular subject.
  • The book adopts a multifaceted approach to learning, including textual exposition, case analysis, questions, and problems. While some problems are relatively simple others are more complex. Many problems are based on decided cases, which are summarized briefly in the text of the problem.

 

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About the authors
Brian Blum
Lewis Clark

Professor Blum practiced as an attorney in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1972 to 1975 and as an advocate in the following two years. Blum taught part-time at the School of Law of the University of Witwatersrand while in practice as an advocate. He joined the law school faculty in 1978. Blum has published law review articles on bankruptcy law, contracts, and commercial law as well as books on bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law and contracts.

Amy C. Bushaw
Lewis Clark

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Bushaw was a partner with the law firm of Hughes Luce, LLP in Texas. Among other clients, she represented financial institutions in a broad range of domestic and international transactions. Some of the transactions were corporate acquisitions; others established commercial lending facilities; yet others involved real estate.

As a student at Yale, she was a research assistant for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and pursued research on martial law in Poland. She also worked on the Yale Journal of International Law. In Bushaw's second year of teaching at Lewis & Clark, and again in her fourth, she was voted the Leo Levenson award for excellence in teaching by the graduating class.

Her research interests include theories of legal education and legal practice, transactional approaches to legal issues, non-economic interests in business law, and the intersections among commercial law and economic and social development. She has recently co-authored a Contracts text with Professor Brian Blum. She has published articles relating to economic and social development in the United States and abroad, and she has concentrated on small business development in particular. Her specific international focus is central and eastern Europe, and she has conducted research, taught classes, and lectured throughout the region.

Product Information
Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2022-01-31
Copyright Year
2022
Pages
1120
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543838763
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9781543857054
Subject
Contract Law
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