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This text seeks to answer the two main questions relating to contract law: What promises does society enforce, and why does it enforce them? Writing in a clear and concise way, Hillman provides a great overview of the daunting area of contract law with numerous illustrations.
This book covers the main topics of contract law typically treated in a first-year law school course on the subject, and handles topics such as bargain theory, fraud, remedies, contract interpretation, breach of contract, grounds for excusing performance, and third parties.
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A must.......2007-01-09
A must for those clueless 1Ls who finish their semester and go into finals thinking, "huh?" about Contracts. Although I guess I should include the disclaimer that the book is probably just useful as an companion to Summers and Hillman's casebook.
Excellent supplement to the Hillman/Summers Casebook.......2006-07-19
This hornbook makes reading the case book very, very easy. It summarizes all of the concepts from their textbook in a simple and concise manner. I highly recommend reading this book and staying a few pages ahead of your assigned text reading.
Excellent prepatory book.......2006-05-18
I bought this and used it heavily through Contracts, and found it took be a very good supplement to the casebook. It covers the main issues in very good detail, but cannot be trusted as a single source for contract law of course - a short book could not be expected to do that.
The book is written in an informal but very information way, and cites many of the popular cases that will presumably exist in your casebook.
That said, if someone read this book before starting contracts, or read each chapter before reading cases relating to the material in that chapter, you'd probably get a more complete and faster comprehension of the material. This book is great for that purpose.
absolute must have.......2006-02-19
If you want to understand contracts, this is the book you need. I was very confused at the beginning of the semester, but I used this book to supplement my reading and ended up getting an A in the class. Very concise and readable, no confusing language. Good luck.
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The First Edition of Principles of International Business Transactions is designed for users of the authors' popular problem-oriented coursebook, International Business Transactions, but can be used effectively with any international trade/economic law course materials. Coverage moves sequentially from international sales and letters of credit to regulation of internaional trade to transfers of technology to foreign investment to dispute settlement. Full citations and analyses are provided.
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Poor Presentation.......2003-06-11
I was terribly disappointed in this book. I teach construction law at a community college and was assigned to use this book my first semester. I'll not use it again. The organization of the information was questionable. Many statements contained in the book were flat wrong or presented only a misrepresentative portion of a bigger picture. Many key topics were completely unaddressed. I can say that where the book is correct, the information is presented in plain English and provides the student with useable information about the basics.
Construction Contracting: Business and Legal Principles.......2000-10-05
At first I was disappointed when I realized the book was written primarily as a teaching text for senior students in baccalaureate university programs in construction engineering or construction management. However, the book is so well written and full of case law references that I was immediately provided with excellent material for two in-process construction claims packages.
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Helps students synthesize cases by focusing on principles, policies, rules, and court treatment of authorities. Use of many transitions and original notes written for students. Cases with a contemporary flavor are studied so students can see what types of cases they will face in a few years. Includes disciplined questions for a thorough class discussion and short problems that explore the significance of the main cases. For use in either a half-year or a full-year course.
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A Clear, Well-Edited Case Book.......2007-08-23
Chances are, if you're reading this review, you're a student who's been assigned this book for your introductory Contracts class. If you have, you're in luck, because this is one of the clearest case books that I read as a first year law student.
If, on the other hand, you're a law professor who's considering reading or using this book for one of your classes, please give this book a fair chance as it's well written, well-edited, and provides a clear picture that helps prevent your students from having that look of desperation that's so common during the first year of law school.
Contracts was not my favorite course from my first year of law school (far from it, in fact) but this book is what made the course bearable for me. The format of the book is simple, and in its simplicity is brilliant.
Each chapter begins with a clear and concise introduction, providing the student with the basic vocabulary necessary to understand the material that that chapter covers.
The chapters are further broken up into sections. Each section also begins with a brief, but well-written and clear introduction, which guides the student gently into the ideas that are about to be covered. After this introduction, there is usually a list of the Restatement and U.C.C. provisions that are relevant to the material about to be covered. Then there's a case or two, followed by questions and notes on the material just covered. This is followed by a couple more cases, which are also followed by questions and notes, and thus ends that section, to be followed by a section that is structured similarly.
It's a simple formula, and it works. The introduction orients the students successfully. The Restatement and U.C.C. provisions provide general rules that are then applied in the first case or two. Note materials and questions following those first cases are provided to get the student thinking. The next couple cases provide exceptions to or variations on the general rule. Note material sums it up and then the student is ready to move on to the next topic.
This books is one of the prettier ones in my collection (with the faux-leather cover) and doesn't get destroyed easily like the books published by Aspen. Also, it's only about an inch and a quarter thick, which meant it was the only book I didn't hate dragging around for a semester.
I'm really glad this was the book I used for my intro-Contracts class.
From a Former Student: This is the Model of all Casebooks........1999-04-19
In what generally can be categorized as unreadable, dense, unorganized and without clear themes, Professor Burton's textbook for law students is a clear aberration. Professor Burton presents contract law in a clear outline fashion, divided into different and inciteful principles. Cases within each principle clearly present individual "trees" and in the end, the reader comes out with a very clear and workable picture of the "forest." Professor Burton does not "hide the ball" in the form of ongoing, mindless and unreadable "Notes and Questions."
All law professors and aspiring law professors should consider Burton's text as the standard and the model to which all legal texts should aspire.
negative.......1998-09-29
I have studied contract law for 35 years and have never read such a piece of absolute garbage. Burton obviously spent little time writing this one.
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Guides you step-by-step through the confusing world of surety bonding
Obtaining performance bonds can be a long, arduous, frustrating process, fraught with obscure legalese and endless hoops for contractors to jump through. Contractors need all the help they can get in making sense of and navigating the confusing world of surety bonding. Unfortunately, most books on the subject are written for lawyers and provide little or no practical guidance for contractors. Written by a suretyship expert with more than three decades of experience working with contractors, this book fills that gap in the literature.
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Immediately recognized all over the world in its first edition as the definitive treatment of international contract law as restructured by the UNIDROIT Principles, this substantially revised and expanded new edition augments its already comprehensive coverage with analysis of: the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts of rhte International Sale of Goods (CISG); the Principles of European Contract Law; the first practical experiences with the UNIDROIT Principles; and a survey of the first major decisions rendered by arbitral tribunals and State courts thus far.
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