Contracts in a Nutshell

Claude D. Rohwer, Pacific McGeorge

Anthony M. Skrocki, Pacific McGeorge

Michael P. Malloy, University of Pacific School of Law

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Table of Contents

New edition features:

• Edited and revised material for greater clarity throughout the text.
• Updated case references and discussion.
• Sample contracts questions with accompanying explanation, cross-referenced to substantive chapters.
• Detailed “Framework for Review,” offering a suggested approach to analysis of a contracts problem and guidance for student preparation of a course outline.

New edition includes significant new or newly revised material on:

• Evolving judicial approaches to the applicability of UCC to contracts involving both goods and services (§ 1.5.1).
• Recent adoptions of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (§ 1.6).
• Expanded treatment of digital contracts, including
  • Medium of Acceptance: Electronic Communications (§ 2.45).
  • Digital Contracts and the Impact of UCC § 2-207 (§ 2.46).
  • Sale of Software; Licensing Terms (§ 2.47).
• Updated treatment of statutes of frauds, recognizing that there are multiple and distinct statutory writing requirements (§§ 3.1, 3.2).
• Expanded treatment of course of performance; course of dealing, and usage of trade (§ 4.3).
• Expanded treatment of good faith and fair dealing (§ 4.11.1).
• Current state trends relating to infants (minors) (§ 5.2.1).
• Possible impact of foreign policy prohibitions (like the Russia-Ukraine sanctions) on contract enforcement (§§ 5.11.1, 6.2).
• Discussion of “material adverse event” or “MAE” clauses (§ 6.3).
• Explanation of terminology of “conditions” (§ 8.1).
• Discussion of contract implications of a “letter of intent” (§ 8.13).
• Expanded discussion of interest as a remedy (§ 9.1.5).
• Expanded explanation of terminology of assignment and delegation (§ 12.1).

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