Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda for Teaching

by Warren Swain (Editor), David Campbell (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351712606
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/2019
Series:	Legal Pedagogy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Warren Swain is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK.

David Campbell is Professor of Law in the Law School at Lancaster University, UK, and Visiting Professor, Auckland University of Technology Law School, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

1. Rescuing Contract Law Pedagogy from the Nineteenth Century

WARREN SWAIN

2. Agreement

MARTIN HOGG

3. Bargain

JONATHAN MORGAN

4. Key Themes in the Teaching of Remedies

DAVID CAMPBELL

5. Exploitation

RICK BIGWOOD

6. Law in Action

SALLY WHEELER

7. Students as Consumers: Using Student Experiences to Teach Consumer Contract Law

RICHARD HYDE

8. Teaching the Law of Contract in a World of New Transactional Technologies

ROGER BROWNSWORD

9. Contract Theory

BRIAN H BIX

10. Teaching Contracts from the Perspective of Relational Contract Theory

PAUL GUDEL

11. Human Rights Reasoning and the Contract Law Scholar

PAUL WRAGG

12. Contract Law Teaching: Teaching from the Case Law

DAVID CAPPER

13. Making Use of New Technology

JESSICA VIVEN-WILKSCH

14. Doing Away with the Case Method: What Could Go Wrong?

MARCUS ROBERTS

15. Insights from Outside the Common Law

JOHN CARTWRIGHT

16. Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda

WARREN SWAIN