In the past few years, I have received a few complaints in my student evaluations that I teach too many old cases. This year, there were more such complaints than ever before. There aren’t that many; only a handful out of 75 students in my contracts courses, but the complaint is new and gaining steam. One student helpfully defined ‘old’ as cases from the ’19th and 20th centuries’. It’s official. I’m old. These comments led me to go back through my reader and have a look. The oldest case I teach is Mills v Wyman, from 1825 … (more)
[Jeremy Telman, ContractsProf Blog, 31 January 2024]
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