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This casebook focuses not only on the rules and principles of contract law, but also on the lawyer's role in planning and drafting contracts and on the richness of contract theory. It has comprehensive coverage of contract law and related obligation, the latter including promissory estoppel, restitution, and tort arising in the contract setting. This book is primarily a case book designed to help students develop important analytical and critical skills, but also has ample notes, problems, and excerpts that focus on the nature, function, and limits of contract and related law. Features of the new Fifth Edition include: several recent cases that bring important issues up to date; new notes and comments about recent developments in contract law and recent contract controversies in the news; and new excerpts from the secondary literature focusing on major recent developments.

The McRoberts Research Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School, is a frequent lecturer on the Uniform Commercial Code for continuing legal education programs across the country. He lectured most recently with Professor James J. White on Remedies Under Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code with Special Emphasis on Warranties. Professor Summers was educated at the University of Oregon and Harvard Law School. He practiced in Portland, Oregon with King, Miller, Anderson, Nash and Yerke, and later taught at the University of Oregon School of Law from 1960-1969. He is a member of the Oregon and New York bars. Professor Summers has authored many articles, including the classic treatment of the general obligation of good faith under the Uniform Commercial Code. In total, he has authored or co-authored ten books in the fields of commercial law and jurisprudence.