Contracts (Wilkinson-Ryan) - Sec 3A
Faculty
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| Tess Wilkinson-Ryan Professor of Law and Psychology twilkins@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Team Projects
Grading
100% Exam
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- If you are absent, due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can ask for volunteers among your classmates to share their notes with you.
Meeting Times/Location
R 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Silverman Hall 245A
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Silverman Hall 245A
Category
First-Year
Credits
4.0
A study of the legal protection accorded promissory arrangements. The course deals with the reconciliation of the competing values of private ordering through consent-based agreements and of public regulation of exchange transactions. Subject matter considered includes the interpretation of contract terms, the effect of changed or unforeseen circumstances on contract obligations, and the remedies which the law provides for breach of contract. Also included are limitations on contract enforcement because of unconscionability and bad faith. The course emphasizes both the contract in litigation and the influence of contract law on transactional planning. The Uniform Commercial Code is prominent in the legal sources studied.
Textbooks
"Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice" by Robert S. Summers, Robert A. Hillman and David A. Hoffman |