What are we doing here anyway?

Students often think that contracts is going to be no fun. They don't see the connections between why they came to law school, particularly a law school like Howard, and contract law.

But contract law is about the use of state power to compel people to act (either to fulfill the terms of their agreements or, more commonly, to pay money if they do not (e.g. they breach their contracts)).

Who drafts the contracts most consumers sign? In whose interests are these contracts drafted? And since the answers to these questions are often: highly-paid teams of fancy lawyers looking out for their corporate clients, it bears thinking about how contract law is used to the detriment of every day people.

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