{"product_id":"contracts-third-edition-isbn-9780262545686","title":"Contracts, third edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA casebook to be used as the primary text for first-year law school contracts courses, written by a leading scholar in contract law.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenting a home, buying a ticket, downloading an app—humans enter into contracts constantly, often with little consciousness of the legal implications. We typically become alert to the consequences only when a problem arises. Contracting can increase our happiness by enabling us to do things that we would be otherwise unable to do, but heartbreak follows when things go wrong. This casebook, which can be used as a primary text for a first-year law school contracts course, covers a wide spectrum of quandaries that emerge in contract law, from problems of overreach and interpretation to enforcement and fraud. Taken together, these cases offer an exploration of contract pathology and introduce students to concepts that are essential to understanding the vast subject of Anglo-American contract law. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is part of the Open Casebook series from Harvard Law School Library and the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimary text for a first-year law school contracts course \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeveloped for use at Harvard Law School by a leading scholar in contract law \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiverse cases show differing approaches to a range of problems within contracting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassroom tested \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e1 A Note on Contracts and Happiness 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Public Policy and Contracting 7\u003cbr\u003e3 Contract Formation 55\u003cbr\u003e4 Grounds for Enforcing Promises 135\u003cbr\u003e5 Remedies 257\u003cbr\u003e6 Statue of Frauds 379\u003cbr\u003e7 Parol Evidence Rule 391\u003cbr\u003e8 Problems of Interpretation 409\u003cbr\u003e9 Defenses against Contractual Liability: The Problem of Over-Reaching 477\u003cbr\u003e10 Excuses for Nonperformance 575\u003cbr\u003e11 Issues Regarding the Performance of Terms in the Agreement 619\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 637\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Cases 639\u003cb\u003eRandall Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eRace, Crime, and the Law\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInterracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption.\u003c\/i\u003e He clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305463402725,"sku":"NP9780262545686","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545686.jpg?v=1767724081","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/contracts-third-edition-isbn-9780262545686","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}