Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy

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.

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