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Title: Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks) by Robert S. Summers, Robert A. Hillman ISBN: 0-314-24995-8 Publisher: West Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $88.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible Case Book
Comment: This was the best law case book I've ever used. If you want the law spoon fed to you, yes, this book is a difficult tool. Professors Summers and Hillman, however, are firm believers that the best way to teach the law is by motivating the students to teach themselves. Their approach with this book is thought-provoking, thorough, and, yes, challenging. If you want an easy read, use a commercial outline. The law, however, is not supposed to be easy. You are supposed to wrangle with every word, to challenge every opinion, and search why the judges' reasoning is faulty. Professors Summers and Hillman triumph mightily with their text. Their holistic approach to teaching contracts is, undoubtedly, revolutionary. Much like Lon Fuller's text Basic Contract Law, it is a departure from the normal format. In fact, you won't find Hawkins v. McGee anywhere in the book, save for a footnote. If you are lucky enough to use this casebook, take advantage of it, and the incredible learning opportunity it presents. By the end of the course, you will have a view of the entire forest, to use the oft-used metaphor, as well as an in-depth understanding of each tree.

Rating: 1
Summary: Worst case book I had in law school
Comment: They don't get much worse than this. The book is worthless, and made Contracts almost impossible to understand. The cases are sliced into strange, sometimes tiny portions, making it hard to elucidate anything from them. Compounding this problem, the authors themselves give nothing in the way of guidance before cases, not even a couple of lines to explain cases or put them in perspective. This is the only case book I have had that gives so little guidance in digesting cases or the general material. Essentially, the authors slapped together some articles and case excerpts without adding anything themselves. There are NO endnotes whatsoever.

Additionally, the book is filled with long excepts of law review articles which you can't understand or appreciate. It is pretty tough to learn any legal subject as a 1L from law review articles.

Basically, with this book you are thrown in the ocean and have to swim to shore yourself. If your professor uses this text, I recommend trying to move to a different section.

Rating: 1
Summary: can't see the forest for the trees
Comment: I used this book for two semesters of contracts. It is the most unpleasant book I have had to read so far in law school. The authors themselves wrote very little. The book consists almost entirely of edited cases and excerpts from law review articles. There is essentially a case for every little iota of contract knowledge and it gets very tedious to parse a long case for what is in the end a simple rule. The law review excerpts are often very obtuse. One paragraph of a 200 hundred page article can be near impossible to grasp without appropriate context.

What is missing from this book is the glue that binds the disparate elements together. This may be the responsibility of the student learning contracts, but the book makes learning contracts like a Gordian knot rather than putting together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Tha book may be useful as a reference for the practitioner but it is not a good book for a first-year law student to learn contracts.