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Terms Of Engagement: What Does All That Contract Legalese Really Mean And How Can We Better Teach It To Our Students?, Robert Aalberts, I. Scott Bogatz, Darren Prum Jan 2012

Terms Of Engagement: What Does All That Contract Legalese Really Mean And How Can We Better Teach It To Our Students?, Robert Aalberts, I. Scott Bogatz, Darren Prum

Darren A. Prum

Teaching the law of contracts has always been one of the most fundamental tasks that legal studies/business law professors carry out. Truly, no legally successful business transaction can be realized without a commanding knowledge of contract law. Still, most of our time in the classroom focuses on teaching the elements of a contract accompanied by illustrative appellate level cases rather than explaining and discussing what the important terms and clauses in a typical contract really mean. Knowing the important terms that appear in most contracts and how they relate to contract law can add a significant and essential dimension to …