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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: 92470

  • Fall '26
  • 4
  • Mon, Wed: 9:50-11:50

    Day

  • Kevin Tu

  • Waitlisted. (Limit 60). LD1 only

  • 530a

  • Brian A. Blum Amy C. Bushaw Kevin Tu, Contracts: Cases, Discussion, and Problems, Sixth Edition , Aspen , 2026

    ISBN: 9798894104829

CRN: 92604

  • Fall '26
  • 4
  • Mon: 9:50-11:50
    Thurs: 8:45-10:45

    Day

  • Liza Vertinsky

  • Waitlisted. (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

CRN: 92524

  • Fall '26
  • 4
  • Tues: 1:05-3:05
    Fri: 11:15-1:15

    Day

  • Michael P. Van Alstine

  • Waitlisted. (Limit 60). LD1 only

  • 530a

  • Knapp, et. al., Problems in Contract Law, Tenth Edition , Aspen , Hardcover, 2023

    ISBN: 978-1543856309

CRN: 93442

  • Fall '26
  • 4
  • Mon: 1:05-3:05
    Wed: 2:10-4:10

    Day

  • Russell McClain

  • Waitlisted. (Limit 30). LD1 only

  • 530a

  • Charles L. Knapp Nathan M. Crystal Harry G. Prince Danielle K. Hart Joshua M. Silverstein, Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, Tenth Edition , Aspen , 2023

    ISBN: 9781543856309

    Even though a casebook is required, you do not have to purchase the most recent edition. Earlier editions of the casebook will be perfectly acceptable and likely will be far less expensive than a new version. You would have to find earlier editions online. I have taught from the 9th and 10th editions and can vouch for the content of the 9th edition for sure.

    Recommended/Optional: Charles L. Knapp Nathan M. Crystal Harry G. Prince Danielle K. Hart Joshua M. Silverstein, Rules of Contract Law: 2023 Statutory Supplement , Aspen , 2023

    ISBN: 9781543850826

    This book can be helpful, but you also will have free resources available online to get access to all of the material available in this book and more. I typically do not use the statutory supplement as i prepare--I use online resources. It will be very important for you to use either the supplement or to make sure that accessing these rules online is is part of your study routine.