Contracts

Course Description

Contracts is the study of private law making, i.e., the consensual creation of legally enforceable rights and duties among private parties. The course examines basic concepts of economic relationships, the tension between freedom of contract and fairness in dealing, and the interplay between rules and “justice.” The course addresses such substantive issues as how to read a contract, contract formation, enforceability, conditions, defenses, and remedies. Contracts, therefore, provides a foundation for much of the curriculum: Business Associations, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection, and more. Evening students will take Contracts (4). Depending upon academic assignments made in the summer prior to the start of the student’s first year in law school, some day students will take Contracts (4); other day students will take Introduction to Contracts (2) and Contracts II (3).

Current and Previous Instructors

Key to Codes in Course Descriptions

P: Prerequisite
C: Prerequisite or Concurrent Requirement
R: Recommended Prior or Concurrent Course

Currently Scheduled Sections

CRN: 98628

  • Fall '23
  • 4
  • 107
  • Mon: 8:45-10:45
    Thurs: 8:45-10:45

    Day

  • Liza Vertinsky

  • 1 opening. (Limit 68). LD1 only
  • 530a

  • Contract Law and Theory. 5th Edition

    ISBN: 978-0-76984-894-5 Print edition (preferred) or online subscription

    Make sure you are getting the fifth edition. You can get the hard copy or the ebook.


CRN: 98941

  • Fall '23
  • 4
  • 107
  • Tues: 2:10-4:10
    Fri: 10:55-12:55

    Day

  • Michael P. Van Alstine

  • 0 openings. (Limit 68). LD1 only
  • 530a

  • Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, 10th edition

    ISBN: 9781543856309 Print edition (preferred) or online subscription


CRN: 98741

  • Fall '23
  • 4
  • 108
  • Mon: 1:05-3:05
    Thurs: 1:05-3:05

    Day

  • Kevin Tu

  • 1 opening. (Limit 34). LD1 only
  • 530a

  • Contracts: Cases, Discussion, and Problems, Fifth Edition

    ISBN: 9781543857054 Print edition (preferred) or online subscription


CRN: 98629

  • Fall '23
  • 4
  • 302
  • Tues: 2:10-4:10
    Thurs: 9:50-11:50

    Day

  • Martha Ertman

  • 0 openings. (Limit 34). LD1 only
  • 530a

  • Contract Law: An Integrated Approach, 2d (Doctrine and Practice Series)

    ISBN: 9781685613839 Print edition (preferred) or online subscription


CRN: 98631

  • Fall '23
  • 4
  • 302
  • Tues: 6:30-9:10
    Thurs: 6:30-7:50

    Evening

  • Martha Ertman

  • 4 openings. (Limit 30). Second Year Evening Required
  • 530e

  • Contract Law: An Integrated Approach

    ISBN: 9781685613839 Print edition (preferred) or online subscription

    2nd ed forthcoming this summer.