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Fall 2009
5409 Contracts - LINZER- 16582

Professor(s): Peter Linzer (FACULTY)

Credits: 4

Course Areas: 1st Year - Section B 

Time: W=10:30a-11:50a  ThF= 9a-10:20a Location: BLB 209 

Course Outline: A four course survey of the basic building block of private law, with an emphasis on how lawyers structure transactions for clients. Besides the basic issues of contract formation (offer, acceptance, bargain, consideration, reliance), formalities, interpretation, conditions and remedies, including restitution, we will read law review articles on both practice and theory. A small amount of time will be devoted to contract drafting and planning.

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Final Exam Schedule: 12/18 9am - 1pm  215 TU2  211 TU2  

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• (3/18/2009 3:28:31 PM) Title: Rules of Contract Law, 2009 Statutory Supplement
  Author: Charles L. Knapp, Nathan M. Crystal, Harry G. Prince
  Edition:  Year: 2009 ISBN: 0735579385 Publisher: Aspen Publishers
   Paperback. Published by July 25, 2009. Available in bookstores soon thereafter--in time for Fall 2009 semester.
• (3/18/2009 3:26:10 PM) Title: Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition
  Author: Charles L. Knapp, Nathan M. Crystal, Harry G. Prince
  Edition: Sixth Year: 2007 ISBN: 978-073-5562-554 Publisher: Aspen Publishers
   1,058 pages. Hard cover.
• (3/18/2009 3:23:43 PM) Title: Haggard's Contract Law from a Drafting Perspective
  Author: Thomas R. Haggard
  Edition:  Year: 2002 ISBN: 978-031-4144-492 Publisher: Thomson West, American Casebook Series
   Softbound.
• (3/18/2009 3:22:27 PM) Title: A Contracts Anthology, Second Edition
  Author: Peter Linzer
  Edition: 2nd Edition Year: 1995 ISBN: 9780870844188 Publisher: Anderson Publishing
   459 pages. Soft cover.