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Recommended in more than 100 schools, the updated seventh edition of Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts is a readable primer that offers first-year law students a reliable overview of the major themes and leading cases in the field of the law of contracts. This contracts primer is straightforward and uncluttered, covering the main themes of the first-year contracts course, together with related cases.
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Chirelstein (law, Columbia University) offers a concise primer on contracts for first-year law students. Overviewing major themes and cases, the book stresses conceptual elements and case analysis rather than legal detail. After an introduction to the contract curve and expectation damages, chapters cover consideration and exchange, contract formation, and unfairness and unconscionability, along with contract interpretation, performance and breach, mistake and impossibility, remedies, and third party beneficiaries. This seventh edition contains additional cases. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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