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Intention In Tension Contracts, Cases And Doctrine By Randy E. Barnett, Kellye Y. Testy
Intention In Tension Contracts, Cases And Doctrine By Randy E. Barnett, Kellye Y. Testy
Seattle University Law Review
In discussing the choice of Barnett's casebook, this Review focuses on two central pedagogical goals, and describe how Barnett's casebook has either helped or hindered the reviewer's ability to accomplish those goals. Those goals are to actively assist students in (1) learning basic (accepted) contract doctrines and methods of analyzing contract issues; and (2) developing a critical stance toward law in general, and contract law in particular.
Preface: Law In (Case)Books, Law (School) In Action: The Case For Casebook Reviews, Janet Ainsworth
Preface: Law In (Case)Books, Law (School) In Action: The Case For Casebook Reviews, Janet Ainsworth
Seattle University Law Review
In the aggregate, these casebook reviews demonstrate the significance of the casebook, with its strengths and weaknesses, not just in shaping the temporary experience of students and teachers in the law school classroom but more profoundly for the longer-term development of the legal profession. Because casebooks still maintain the center of gravity in legal education, they serve as the vehicle through which each succeeding generation of lawyers is socialized into patterns of thinking about law and legal practice. Ironically, any single popular casebook probably has a more direct and profound influence on the legal culture than all of the other …
A Casebook For All Seasons? Cases And Materials On Contracts, 5th Edition By E. Allan Farnsworth & William F. Young, Geoffrey R. Watson
A Casebook For All Seasons? Cases And Materials On Contracts, 5th Edition By E. Allan Farnsworth & William F. Young, Geoffrey R. Watson
Seattle University Law Review
By any measure, Farnsworth & Young's <em>Cases and Materials on Contracts</em> is one of the leading American casebooks on contracts, perhaps the leading casebook. Part I of this Review considers the book's merits as a tool for teaching contract doctrine. In this respect the book excels. Part II considers it as a tool for introducing students to broader perspectives on contract law. In this respect the book's success is somewhat less complete.
A Clinical Textbook?, John B. Mitchell
A Clinical Textbook?, John B. Mitchell
Seattle University Law Review
A clinical perspective (i.e., centered on practicing attorneys and clients) should be embedded throughout the law school curriculum. Do you need a clinical textbook to impart this clinical perspective? No. There are a number of other alternatives. Many professors are creating their own problems and exercises. Also, standard texts have increasingly begun to include problems and exercises which you can use. And there are companion or supplementary materials--casefiles, exercises, and even novels which professors can assign to add a lawyering perspective to a doctrinal course.
An Agnostic's Bible Contract And Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, And Practice, 3d Edition By Robert S. Summers And Robert A. Hillman, Sidney W. Delong
An Agnostic's Bible Contract And Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, And Practice, 3d Edition By Robert S. Summers And Robert A. Hillman, Sidney W. Delong
Seattle University Law Review
A casebook's warranties appear in its preface. In their Preface to the First Edition, the authors of Contract and Related Obligation (CRO) undertook to do the following: (1) acquaint the student with the lawyer's role in contractual relations; (2) stress the “private-made” character of much of what we call law; (3) expose students to many different theories about contract; (4) renew the waning practice of “dialectical” teaching by using largely unedited principal cases, and by eschewing summaries and textual notes; (5) reveal the many extra-legal sources of law, including moral, political, and economic reasoning; and (6) offer more general insights …
Reflections On Barnett's Contracts, Cases And Doctrine, Michael B. Kelly
Reflections On Barnett's Contracts, Cases And Doctrine, Michael B. Kelly
Seattle University Law Review
Randy Barnett's Contracts, Cases and Doctrine presents a relatively straightforward set of teaching materials, aptly chosen for modern teaching techniques. Careful exposition of fundamentals permits professors to use class time more productively. The concentration on fundamentals also frees the professor to choose the specific elaborations she finds most valuable for the class or the material.