Contract Law: Multivolume Titles

This eagerly awaited revision of a prestigious student treatise helps professors demystify the intricacies of contract law. Long respected for its clarity and accessibility, Contracts, in its completely updated Fourth Edition, continues to illuminate doctrine and practice. The textbook builds on its well-known strengths: Comprehensive coverage of all of the topics that figure prominently in most contracts courses. Intuitive, insightful approach for first-year law students... Clear explanations of the rules, illustrated with noteworthy examples. Incorporation of many recent cases into examples. Clear prose and incisive analysis Reflection of the expertise of the author, who has also written a successful practitioner treatise. Suitability for use alongside any casebook. The Fourth Edition keeps pace with developments in the field, providing: Detailed comparisons of the contract rules of 2003, revised Article 2 (2003), with previous Article 2. Citations to revised Articles 1 and 9. Citations to dozens of new cases, including those applying CISG (Vienna Sales Convention) and reference to current decisions in such areas as employment agreements, enforceability of arbitration clauses, anti-nuptial contracts, liquidated damages, pre-contractual liability, and electronic contracting. Citations to new law journal articles and updated citations to other secondary sources. Learning contract law will be less daunting when the Fourth Edition of E. Allan Farnsworth's Contracts is available for extra assistance.

The critical analyses presented in the Fifth Edition of Murray on Contracts provide students with the insights necessary to gain a comprehensive understanding of the law of contracts. This text also considers and critically analyzes statutory modifications of neoclassical contract doctrine beyond the UCC. Many of the sections contain captioned subdivisions so that the reader is more easily directed to topical discussions within the sections. The author includes citation tables to Restatement and UCC sections as well as a table of cases, along with an expansive index. In addition, the appendix includes the text of the United Nations convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), and the final chapter provides an introduction to the CISG and compares its key provisions with the UCC and other principles of American contract law. This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

The Unidroit Principles of International Contracts, first published in 1994, have met with extraordinary success in the legal and business community worldwide. Prepared by a group of eminent experts from all major legal systems of the world, they provide a comprehensive set of rules for international commercial contracts. Available in more than 20 language versions, they are increasingly being used by national legislatures as a source of inspiration in law reform projects, by lawyers as guidelines in contract negotiations and by arbitrators as a legal basis for the settlement of disputes. In 2004 a new edition of the Unidroit Principles was approved, containing five new chapters and adaptations to take into account electronic contracting.

This is the pre-eminent serialized practice guide for all things UCC. It is structured as a section-by-section reproduction and analysis of the UCC, similar to an annotated code like the USCA or USCS, and includes extensive appendices of UCC forms, related model codes like Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and major international commercial treaties. Available online on Westlaw Edge.

This serial is a topic reporter, a type of case reporter similar to the regional reporters but only covering cases on one specific topic - in this example, cases applying and interpreting the Uniform Commercial Code. To that end, while the coverage is obvious quite a bit narrower than what one would expect from traditional reporters - and technically redundant with them - the supplementary information for each reported case is enormous, and goes into great detail. Not only will one find the basic headnote information, but a record of all parties and their attorneys, extensive professional analysis of the case itself, historical and appellate context, and so forth. This serial is an excellent starting point for a "deep dive" on a specific case. Available online on Westlaw Edge.

A competitor to the Fischer & Willis UCC Reporting Service, with less comprehensive supplementary data but longer explanatory annotations to each case. Primarily maintained by second-year law students at Boston College, similar to a law review. Available online on Lexis Plus.

This long-running serial service remains the premier resource on its named topic: damages under the UCC. While that may seem a narrow topic, the size of the serial allows it to present thorough background treatment of its two components - the UCC generally, and contractual damages - as context. Available online on Westlaw Edge.