A thorough overview of Contracts, the new edition of this popular E&E includes Brian Blum’s extraordinarily lucid explanations of complex concepts. The Fifth Edition of Examples & Explanations: Contracts, builds on the framework established in earlier editions by providing an accessible, comprehensive treatment of the first-year contracts syllabus, written especially for students and designed to provide them with information, examples, and analysis of appropriate complexity and detail. In the fifth edition, the coverage of contracting through standard forms and electronic means is expanded, and new notes offer an international perspective on contract law.

Thoroughly updated in its Fifth Edition, Examples & Explanations: Contracts features:

• The proven-effective Examples & Explanations format that combines explanatory text with hypothetical problems and answers
• A well-organized arrangement of topics that links the themes in each chapter so that students can see the interaction between different topics studied in the course
• lt;b>Informal and lucid text that articulates basic assumptions, explains the transactional context, and defines terminology
• Sufficiently complex examples—many based on actual cases—that allow the reader to explore topics in depth
• Flow charts and diagrams that illustrate key points and reinforce memory
• Coverage of UCC Article 2 throughout the book
• Expanded coverage of standard form contracts and contemporary forms of contracting via electronic communications and on the Internet
• New notes throughout the book that give students a perspective on how the rules of contract law may differ in other countries

A gifted teacher and author, Brian Blum clarifies the principles, goals, policies, and legal rules of Contracts. The Examples & Explanations pedagogy gives the reader practice interpreting the contracts and applying the rules and principles to factual situations.