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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: 93772

  • Fall '25
  • 4
  • Mon: 9:50-11:50
    Thurs: 9:50-11:50

    Day

  • Liza Vertinsky

  • 60 openings. (Limit 60). LD1 only

  • 530a

  • Robert Scott and Judy Kraus, Contract Law and Theory. 6th Edition , Carolina Academic Press , 2023

    ISBN: 978-1-5310-1521-3

    Print or electronic version is fine. You can get the book via amazon or the carolina press website or other online vendors or in the bookstore.

CRN: 92675

  • Fall '25
  • 4
  • Tues: 1:05-3:05
    Fri: 9:50-11:50

    Day

  • Michael P. Van Alstine

  • 60 openings. (Limit 60). LD1 only

CRN: 92731

  • Fall '25
  • 4
  • Mon: 9:50-11:50
    Wed: 9:50-11:50

    Day

  • William Moon

  • 30 openings. (Limit 30). LD1 only

CRN: 92825

  • Fall '25
  • 4
  • Tues: 2:10-4:10
    Thurs: 2:10-4:10

    Day

  • Martha Ertman

  • 30 openings. (Limit 30). LD1 only

  • 530a

  • Materials to be posted on Blackboard or distributed in class

    Martha M. Ertman et al, Contract Law: An Integrated Approach (2nd ed 2023) , Foundation Press , hard cover 2023

    ISBN: 978-1-68561-383-9

    You can buy the book used & purchase the online elements for about $50.

CRN: 92676

  • Fall '25
  • 4
  • Tues: 6:30-9:00
    Thurs: 8:05-9:30

    Evening

  • Martha Ertman

  • 30 openings. (Limit 45). First Year Evening/Second Year Evening Required

  • 530e

  • Materials to be posted on Blackboard or distributed in class

    Martha M. Ertman et al, Contract Law: An Integrated Approach (2nd ed 2023) , Foundation Press , hard cover 2023

    ISBN: 978-1-68561-383-9

    you can buy the book used & purchase the online elements for about $50