Teaching Contract Drafting / Robin A. Boyle-Laisure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle-Laisure, Robin A., author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar guides to teaching.

Elgar Guides to Teaching Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contracts.

Legal composition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

This comprehensive guide covers every stage of organising and teaching a course in contract drafting. With extensive sample course materials, it offers useful tips for building nuance, creative thinking, and experiential learning into contract drafting curricula.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to Teaching Contract Drafting

2. Client meeting simulation: getting started

3. Negotiation preparation

4. Representations and warranties: getting into the facts

5. Covenants: promises, promises

6. Conditions: drafting with care

7. Discretionary authority: crafting provisions that allow for choice

8. Preliminary components: preamble, recitals, words of agreement, definitions, interpretations, and declarations

9. Other substantive provisions

10. General provisions, otherwise known as 'boilerplate'

11. International considerations and contract drafting

12. Drafting for a technological age

13. Using proper words and tabulation

14. Neuroscience and use of creativity in contract drafting

15. The pedagogy of teaching contract drafting

16. Ethics and contract drafting

17. Contract drafting exercises

18. Sample contracts and checklist

19. Answer key

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Boyle-Laisure, Robin A. Teaching Contract Drafting

ISBN:

1-80220-936-0