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Concise text features both new and classic cases and well-designed discussion problems in each unit based on real cases that give students the opportunity to apply the doctrine and understand how courts resolved the issues. 

The perfect casebook for the modern Contracts course. This highly-focused, case-based text offers a comprehensive treatment of the basic issues of contract law and emphasizes development of analogical reasoning skills. Each section is limited to three types of materials (brief narrative introduction, judicial opinions, and discussion problems) and is designed to teach students how to read opinions, analyze issues, distinguish material from immaterial facts, and apply holdings to similar problems. 

New to the Fourth Edition: 

• New discussion problems have been added throughout the book to better enable the students to apply the material learned from the principal cases to new factual situations and then learn how judges have dealt with those situations. 

• New cases and discussion problems have been added on the topic of standard form contracts, the parol evidence rule, and contract interpretation. 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

• Lean, focused text with a 2-color design that can be taught, cover-to-cover, in a one-semester course 

• Each section is limited to three types of materials (brief narrative, judicial opinions, and discussion problems), which best promote the teaching and learning of the method of legal reasoning 

• Both classic and contemporary cases are edited to include sufficient background and reasoning for students to analyze the court’s decision 

• Discussion problems present summarized facts from real cases 

• Subject of Contract Interpretation is broken down into three separate sections to provide more coverage of the single most litigated issue in contract law 

• Comprehensive Teacher’s Manual provides short case briefs, comprehensive Socratic dialogue for each topic to structure class sessions, judicial holdings for each discussion problem and comes with PowerPoint slides that include court resolution of discussion problems that can be shown after students debate the problems.