Full Description
Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy examines why existing contract teaching pedagogy has remained in place for so long and argues for an overhaul of the way it is taught. With contributions from a range of jurisdictions and types of university, it provides a survey of contract law courses across the common law world, reviewing current practice and expressing concern that the emphasis the current approach places on some features of contract doctrine fails to reflect reality.
The book engages with the major criticism of the standard contract course, which is that it is too narrow and rarely engages with ordinary life, or at least ordinary contracts, and argues that students are left without vital knowledge. This collection is designed to be a platform for sharing innovative teaching experiences, with the aim of building a new approach that addresses such issues.
This book will have international appeal and will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates in the fields of law and education. It will also appeal to teachers of contract law, as well as governmental and legal profession policymakers.
Contents
Rescuing Contract Law Pedagogy from the Nineteenth Century
WARREN SWAIN
Agreement
MARTIN HOGG
Bargain
JONATHAN MORGAN
Key Themes in the Teaching of Remedies
DAVID CAMPBELL
Exploitation
RICK BIGWOOD
Law in Action
SALLY WHEELER
Students as Consumers: Using Student Experiences to Teach Consumer Contract Law
RICHARD HYDE
Teaching the Law of Contract in a World of New Transactional Technologies
ROGER BROWNSWORD
Contract Theory
BRIAN H BIX
Teaching Contracts from the Perspective of Relational Contract Theory
PAUL GUDEL
Human Rights Reasoning and the Contract Law Scholar
PAUL WRAGG
Contract Law Teaching: Teaching from the Case Law
DAVID CAPPER
Making Use of New Technology
JESSICA VIVEN-WILKSCH
Doing Away with the Case Method: What Could Go Wrong?
MARCUS ROBERTS
Insights from Outside the Common Law
JOHN CARTWRIGHT
Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda
WARREN SWAIN
