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An Introduction to Contract Law: Principles, Cases, and Context, by Stephen M. Rice, is a textbook created specifically for undergraduate and (non-law school) graduate students that explores important aspects of contract law in detail while omitting granular points and exceptions that pose a digression from foundational concepts.    

Given the pervasiveness and power of contractual relationships in society, it is no wonder that undergraduate and post-graduate programs outside of law school have increasingly included Contract Law among their offerings. Until now, however, nearly every Contract Law textbook available has been written specifically for law school students. An Introduction to Contract Law: Principles, Cases, and Context, represents a voice and scale ideally suited to the undergraduate, LLM, or BLAW Contracts course. It weaves hypotheticals, definitions of key terms, and numerous examples throughout every chapter. Advanced topics are clearly signposted as optional coverage. Introductory Examples at the start of each chapter illustrate the types of issues contract law addresses. Marginal notes and end-of-chapter questions circle back to the facts and issues in the Introductory Example. 

And because professors don’t all agree on one best way to teach Contract Law, a modular organization of chapters enables every professor to chart their own course, navigating in their preferred order of preference through the bases of enforcement, assent, defenses, the Statute of Frauds, performance and breach, and basic assumptions. 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

• Connection Points that place topics in their larger context or framework 
• Short example sets that show how contract rules apply to different sets of facts 
• Questions that ask students to apply the rule or concept to a given set of facts 
• Tightly edited cases that demonstrate how the courts move from abstract general rules to specific outcomes 
• Chapter Summaries 
• End-of-chapter Discussion Questions
• Generous teaching support