LibGuides: * Study Guides for Law Student Success: First Year : Contracts

The following is a curated list of study aids available on our subscription platforms. This list is not exhaustive, so we encourage you to explore each study aid database for more options. These resources are designed to complement your coursework and enhance your exam preparation.

Contract titles available in Aspen Study Aids include:

This is a sample of the books available on West Academic Study Aids. Please visit the West Academic Study Aids Library to review all the titles.

Contracts in a Nutshell.
This Nutshell provides a comprehensive guide to the law of contracts. It contains detailed explanations of contract concepts under both the common law and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as the basics of restitution law.
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It also provides an extensive introduction to contracts in the digital age.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Contract Formation
Chapter 3 Statute of Frauds
Chapter 4 Contract Interpretation
Chapter 5 Defenses
Chapter 6 Events That Excuse Performance
Chapter 7 Contract Modification
Chapter 8 Performance
Chapter 9 Remedies
Chapter 10 Restitution (Unjust Enrichment)
Chapter 11 Third Party Beneficiaries
Chapter 12 Assignment of Rights and Delegation of Duties
Chapter 13 Discharge
Chapter 14 Contracts Questions
Chapter 15 A Framework for Review
Exam Pro On Contracts, Objective
Description: Brain's Exam Pro on Contracts, Objective Questions includes over 330 objective questions covering every substantive area of Contract Law. Each answer choice explains why each answer is either correct or incorrect. Elements and rules are explained in easy-to-understand language, with a step-by-step guide on how to analyze question-types.
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Liberal citation to applicable sections of the Restatement (Second) Contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code, and important contract law cases, allows the students to match a question to his or her outline and class discussion. Exam preparation tips include how to prepare for graded exams, how professors construct multiple choice questions, and how to avoid common “distracters.”

Brain's Exam Pro on Contracts, Essay
Description: This Exam Pro consists of essay questions actually given by Contracts professors throughout the United States. Every question contains a detailed explanation, along with analytical steps explained in easy-to-understand, basic language, and a step-by-step guide on how to analyze each major issue.

Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction
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CALI lessons include:

Acceptance This lesson deals with one aspect of contract formation, acceptance. Acceptance is the manifestation of assent that is made by the offeree in response to an offer. In this lesson, you will learn how a party can accept an offer at common law. The lesson takes up issues such as the manner of acceptance, who can accept, silence as acceptance, rejection and counter-offer. The lesson ends with a short analysis exercise on the subject of acceptance.
Accord and Satisfaction This lesson explores discharge of a debt by accord and satisfaction. It can be run either as an introduction to the study of accord and satisfaction or as a review after you have completed your study.
Agreements Lacking Consideration: Gift Promises This lesson takes a look at one type of agreement that lacks consideration: gift promises. Consideration is often described as the bargained-for-exchange. The bargained-for-exchange is what induces the making of the promise by the offeror and the promise induces the furnishing of the consideration by the offeree. Consideration is the ordinary means for justifying the enforcement of the promises by the parties. Where a gift is made, bargained-for-exchange is lacking and the promises are not enforceable. This lesson sets out the basic requisites for identifying and evaluating a gift promise. The general attributes of consideration are covered in other lessons.
Agreements Lacking Consideration: Past Consideration and Moral This lesson takes a look at two types of agreements that lack consideration: those supported by past consideration or moral obligation. Consideration is often described as the bargained-for-exchange. The bargained-for-exchange is what induces the making of the promise by the offeror and the promise induces the furnishing of the consideration by the offeree. Consideration is the ordinary means for justifying the enforcement of the promises by the parties. Where consideration was given in the past or the promisee is only morally obligated to make the promise, bargained-for-exchange is lacking and the promises are not enforceable.
Anticipatory Repudiation and Assurances of Performance This lesson explores the contours of anticipatory repudiation, including the repudiating promisor's ability to retract his repudiation, the nonrepudiating promisee's right to demand adequate assurances of performance, and the effect of the promisor's repudiation on the promisee's obligation to perform.

* Study Guides for Law Student Success: First Year

Contract Law: In Other Words Video Series & Contract Law: In Other Words Audio Series

Examples & Explanations for Contracts

Inside Contract Law: What Matters and Why

Glannon Guide to Contracts: Learning Contracts Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers, Third Edition

Friedman's Practice Series for Contracts, Second Edition