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D-110 – Contracts I

3 Credits

Examination of the law of contracts including contract formation at common law and under the Uniform Commercial Code; consideration and other bases for enforcing promises; when a written instrument is required; parole evidence and interpretation; unconscionability and other defenses; rights of third parties; excuses for nonperformance; conditions, performance, and breach; and damages.

Fall Sections

Section A
Instructor Room Days Times
Van Detta 609

Required Materials:

Blum, Contracts: Examples & Explanations, Aspen Publishers Inc 5th Edition, ISBN: 9780735588523

Burnham, Drafting & Analyzing Contracts, LexisNexis Matthew Bender 3rd Edition, ISBN: 9780820557885

Chomsky, Sale of Goods (Casebook), West Publishing Company College & School Division 2nd Edition, ISBN: 9780314149756

Chomsky, Selected Commerical Statutes (’11 Ed), West Publishing Company College & School Division, ISBN: 9780314275103

Murry, On Contracts, LexisNexis Matthew Bender 5th  Edition, ISBN: 9781422481554

Recommended Materials:

First Assignments:

See Attached Document:
FIRST ASSIGNMENT FOR PROFESSOR VAN DETTA

 
Section B
Instructor Room Days Times
Brown 202

Required Materials:

Knapp, Problems in Contract Law (Casebook), Aspen Publishers Inc 6th Edition, ISBN:9780735562554

Knapp, Rules of Contract Law (2011 – 2012), Aspen Publishers Inc, ISBN: 9780735508088

 

Recommended Materials:

Blum, Contracts: Examples & Explanations, Aspen Publishers Inc 5th Edition, ISBN: 9780735588523

Farnsworth, Contracts, Aspen Publishers Inc 4th Edition, ISBN: 9780735545403

 

 

First Assignments:

Please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 1-33 in the Knapp Crystal text and the case pdf contained in the link below.

HawkinsvMcGee_Brown(1)-1
Section C
Instructor Room Days Times
Lynch 202

Required Materials:

Farnsworth, Contracts (Casebook), Foundation Press 7th Edition, ISBN: 9781599410302

Recommended Materials:

First Assignments:

See attached document:
Lynch – Contracts – Assignment First Week 2012

 

 
Section D
Instructor Room Days Times
Tandy 204

Required Materials:

Burton, Contract Law: Sel Source Matls (2011 Ed), West Publishing Company College & School Division, ISBN: 9780314274267

Schwartz, Contracts, Carolina Academic Press, ISBN: 9781594606403

 

Recommended Materials:

First Assignments:

See attached document:
Contracts I Section D first assignment