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Perspectives on Contract Law, Fifth Edition

Randy E. Barnett, Nathan B. Oman

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  • ISBN: 9781454848134

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  • Description

    Interesting and informative, Perspectives on Contract Law is an anthology of legal scholarship that presents both seminal and cutting-edge writing by luminaries in the field. Featuring selections from a new generation of contracts scholars including Steven J. Burton, Nathan B. Oman, Margaret Radin, and more, along with additional content by Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott, this text offers a diversity of articles that reflect a variety of contact theorists and perspectives. Created with the first-year law student in mind, this text provides introductory text and Study Guides that frame each article and helpfully suggest salient themes. A logical and modular organization make this reader suitable for use alongside any contracts casebook.

  • Details
    Page Count 576
    Published 03/27/2018
  • Author Information

    Nathan B. Oman

    Nathan Oman joined the faculty at William & Mary Law School in 2006. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Articles Committee of the Harvard Law Review and as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He graduated from Brigham Young University, where he was a Benson Scholar, and, prior to law school, worked on the staff of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Morris Shepard Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, DC office of Sidley Austin, LLP.

    Areas of Specialization: Contract Law; Economic Analysis of Law; Jurisprudence; Law and Religion; Legal History

    Randy E. Barnett

    Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he tried many felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County States’ Attorney’s Office in Chicago. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies, Professor Barnett has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern and Harvard Law School. In 2004, he argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzalez v. Raich before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2012, he was one of the lawyers representing the National Federation of Independent Business in its constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Professor Barnett’s publications includes eleven books, more than one hundred articles and reviews, as well as numerous op-eds. New editions of his books, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton) and The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law (Oxford) will be released later this year, as will his coauthored book, A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (Palgrave).

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