Contracts
Course Information
- Course Number
- L6105
- Curriculum Level
- Foundation
- Areas of Study
- Commercial Law and Transactions
- Type
- Lecture
Section 003 Information
Instructor
Reilly S. Steel
Associate Professor of Law
Section Description
This course is the basic introduction to the law and theory of contracts: the legal obligations that attach to promises made in a business contract or otherwise, including the remedies that may be available for promises that are not kept. The course examines the legal requirements for enforceable contracts (offer and acceptance, consideration, promissory estoppel), and the law governing interpretation (parol evidence, plain meaning and contextualism), relational contracts, conditions, the effect of fraud, mistake, unconscionability, and impossibility, and remedies (damages, specific performance).
- School Year & Semester
- Fall 2025
- Location
- JGH 103
- Schedule
-
Class meets on
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Points
- 4
- Method of Evaluation
- Exam
- J.D Writing Credit?
- No
Learning Outcomes
- Primary
-
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in a specific body of law, including major policy concerns
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in doctrinal analysis, including close reading of cases and precedents, and application to facts
- Secondary
-
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in jurisprudential considerations in legal analysis
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in use of other disciplines in the analysis of legal problems and institutions, e.g., philosophy; economics,other social sciences; and cultural studies
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in the influences of political institutions in law
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in transactional design and value creation
Course Limitations
- Instructor Pre-requisites
- None
- Instructor Co-Requisites
- None
- Requires Permission
- No
- Recommended Courses
- None
- Other Limitations
- None
Additional Section for Contracts
School Year & Semester
Fall 2025
Instructor
Alphonse Fletcher Jr. Professor of Law and Dean Emerita
Points
4School Year & Semester
Fall 2025
Instructor
Milton Handler Professor of Law and Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character
Points
4
