Abstract:
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 contract law pedagogy.
Improving the teaching of contract law has historically driven the energies and talents of professors in legal studies in business. The Journal of Legal Studies Education, for example, has presented a broad range of important and useful teaching notes and articles on how to improve the teaching of contract law …
Aalberts, Robert J., Bogatz, I. Scott and Prum, Darren A., Terms of Engagement: What Does All that Contract Legalese Really Mean and How Can We Better Teach it to Our Students? (February 27, 2012).
First posted 2012-05-16 07:07:15
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