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Bruckner (Howard Law) Contracts 2024
First published Jul 2024 and updated Feb 2025

Making contracts stand out

Available under a CC-BY License except as otherwise marked. Most notably, portions of this book are derived from Val Ricks, The Story of Contract Law: Formation, Fourth Edition, Published by CALI eLangdell Press. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. Thanks to Professor Ricks! Sections attributed to Professor Ricks are marked as such. This book was also adapted from John Coates' 2024 Contracts book, Cases and Materials, made available via H20. Finally, for many years I used Knapp, Crystal, and Prince's Problems in Contract Law: Cases and materials casebook (7th ed), which is now published by Aspen. My thoughts on what makes a proper casebook was surely informed by their approach.

Matthew Bruckner

Contracts are an important type of "private" law. 

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