Basic Contract Law for Paralegals, Ninth Edition Jeffrey A. Helewitz

Basic Contract Law for Paralegals, Ninth Edition Jeffrey A. Helewitz

1. ISBN-10

   1454896280
2. ISBN-13

   978-1454896289

   Basic Contract Law for Paralegals is a clear, comprehensive, and straightforward introduction to all of the basics of contract law, specifically designed for paralegal students. Lively examples and well-crafted pedagogy cover all key topics in a contracts course—from offer, acceptance, and consideration, to discharge of obligations, and remedies. An appendix of twelve sample contracts provides a useful ongoing reference tool for paralegals working with contracts.

   Features:

   • Comprehensive coverage of all the key topics.
   • A culminating chapter walks students through the process of drafting a simple contract.
   • Clearly written text and lively examples help students understand the law.
   • Well-crafted pedagogy includes chapter overviews, highlighted examples, key terms, review questions, sample clauses for analysis, edited cases, chapter summaries, and end-of-chapter exercises
   • Manageable length makes this book ideal for shorter courses.

   New cases provide up-to-date coverage of:

   • Express and implied contracts and promissory estoppel
   • Bilateral and unilateral contracts
   • The mirror image rule and acceptance
   • Consideration
   • Implied-in-fact conditions and conditions precedent
   • Third party beneficiaries
   • Anticipatory repudiation and how to measure damages.