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To set up the casebook method of law study, American law professors traditionally collect the most illustrative cases concerning a particular area of the law in special textbooks called casebooks. Some professors heavily edit cases down to the most important paragraphs, while deleting nearly all citations and paraphrasing everything else; a few ...
In A Casebook on the Roman Law of Contracts, he explored the writings of Roman lawyers regarding the law of contracts, with particular emphasis on stipulation and sale. The book featured 235 cases from the Digest of Justinian, offering a comprehensive view of contract rules and judgments in Roman courts, and also discussed other contracts ...
Christopher Columbus Langdell (May 22, 1826 – July 6, 1906) was an American jurist and legal academic who was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895. As a professor and administrator, he pioneered the casebook method of instruction, which has since been widely adopted in American law schools and adapted for other professional disciplines, such as business, public policy, and education.
Corbin on Contracts was a leading American textbook on US contract law written by Arthur Linton Corbin.It was influential in the development of contract theory and practice in the 50 American states, and throughout the common law world.
Hartog v Colin & Shields [1939] 3 All ER 566 is an important English contract law case regarding unilateral mistake.It holds that when it is obvious that someone has made a mistake in the terms of an offer, one may not simply "snap up" the offer and be able to enforce the agreement.
The Death of Contract is a book by American law professor Grant Gilmore, written in 1974, about the history and development of the common law of contracts. [1] [2] Gilmore's central thesis was that the Law of Contracts, at least as it existed in the 20th-century United States was largely artificial: it was the work of a handful of scholars and judges building a system, rather than a more ...
This case has been a staple of casebooks on contract law for decades, and has come to be known as the "Hairy Hand Case" (or, sometimes, the "Case of the Hairy Hand") because the subsequent decision in McGee v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., 53 F.2D 953 (1st Cir. 1931) uses the phrase. In that case, Doctor McGee sues his malpractice ...
The teaching style based on casebooks is known as the casebook method and is supposed to instill in law students how to "think like a lawyer." [1] The casebook method is most often used in law schools in countries with common law legal systems, where case law is a major source of law.