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Teaching Contract Law: Introducing Students To A Critical Perspective Through Discussion Of Indentured Servitude And Sharecropper Contracts, Gregory S. Crespi
Teaching Contract Law: Introducing Students To A Critical Perspective Through Discussion Of Indentured Servitude And Sharecropper Contracts, Gregory S. Crespi
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An introductory law school course in contract law, prior to commencing the detailed study of specific doctrines, should at the outset provide some general orientation to the students by presenting them with a broad overview of the conventional characterization of contract law as a benign social institution that facilitates private ordering and promisee reliance. However, this initial orientation to the underlying rationale of the subject should also expose the students to a contrasting and more critical perspective that calls attention to contract law’s occasional use as a means of social domination and oppression. A brief discussion of the history of …
The Uc-Irvine Experiment: Will It Be Effective At Teaching Contract Law?, Gregory S. Crespi
The Uc-Irvine Experiment: Will It Be Effective At Teaching Contract Law?, Gregory S. Crespi
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The new law school at the University of California, Irvine is attempting to implement an innovative vision of top-tier legal education that focuses upon preparing students for the practice of law, and which emphasizes skills-based and experiential training. As part of that effort the school has restructured the traditional first-year law school curriculum so that several of the courses each focus on particular analytical methods, specifically common law analysis, statutory analysis, procedural analysis, constitutional analysis, and international legal analysis, rather than on a particular subject matter such as contracts, torts, etc. While there are some advantages to this new approach, …