Contract Law

by Steven J. Burton and Melvin A Eisenberg

Published 30 August 2021
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This best-selling supplement contains UCC Articles 1 and 2, together with excerpts from Articles 3 and 9, in all cases including recent amendments by the Uniform Laws Commission; extensive portions of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts; the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, E-SIGN, and the ALI's Principles of Software Contracts; the CISG and UNIDROIT: other statutes, directives, and administrative regulations, including the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, selected FTC Regulations, and excerpts from the Bankruptcy Code, the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and Regulation Z; and American Institute of Architects sample form contracts. Each major document is introduced by a short annotation that explains the origins of the document, its central purpose, and the scope of its application. This supplement is suitable for use with all contracts casebooks.


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This expanded version of the best-selling supplement contains significantly more material from Restatement (Second) of Contracts and more extensive treatment of international contract law. The standard edition, Contract Law: Selected Source Materials Annotated, 2023 Edition, will be available this summer.

These additions come alongside the material from the standard edition that has made it a longstanding and valuable addition to the study of contract law: UCC Articles 1 and 2, together with excerpts from Articles 3 and 9; the Restatement (Second) of Contracts; the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, E-SIGN; the ALI's Principles of Software Contracts; the CISG and UNIDROIT: other statutes, directives, and administrative regulations, including the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, selected FTC Regulations, and excerpts from the Bankruptcy Code, the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, Regulation Z; the United Kingdom Consumer Rights Statute, and numerous American Institute of Architects sample form contracts. Each major document is introduced by a short annotation that explains the origins of the document, its central purpose, and the scope of its application. This supplement is suitable for use with all contracts casebooks.

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This compilation is designed to provide students with essential statutory provisions, rules, materials, and forms affecting conventional business corporations and other business organizations, and to give students a hand's-on grasp of some of the tools with which lawyers and other professionals work in these areas. The materials are expertly arranged by leading scholars in the field and are intended for law school study. They include complete or selected provisions of state and federal statutes and rules, including SEC staff guidance on shareholder proposals in a company's proxy statement; the Third Restatement of Agency; the ALI's Principles of Corporate Governance, together with selected Comments; selected forms; and other materials. Included are the Delaware statutes for corporations and LLCs, among others, as well as the Model Business Corporation Act and select provisions from other states, which provide a rich array of comparative approaches. Illustrative documents such as an LLC operating agreement, a forum selection bylaw, a proxy form, the Johnson & Johnson no-action materials regarding arbitration bylaws, a governance agreement entered into with an activist investor, a poison pill rights plan, and a negotiated no-shop and fiduciary out provision will assist students' understanding of the practical application of corporate and business law.