1st Edition

Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy A New Agenda for Teaching

Edited By Warren Swain, David Campbell Copyright 2019
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy examines why existing contract teaching pedagogy has remained in place for so long and argues for an overhaul of the way it is taught. With contributions from a range of jurisdictions and types of university, it provides a survey of contract law courses across the common law world, reviewing current practice and expressing concern that the emphasis the current approach places on some features of contract doctrine fails to reflect reality.





    The book engages with the major criticism of the standard contract course, which is that it is too narrow and rarely engages with ordinary life, or at least ordinary contracts, and argues that students are left without vital knowledge. This collection is designed to be a platform for sharing innovative teaching experiences, with the aim of building a new approach that addresses such issues.





    This book will have international appeal and will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates in the fields of law and education. It will also appeal to teachers of contract law, as well as governmental and legal profession policymakers.



    1. Rescuing Contract Law Pedagogy from the Nineteenth Century


    2. WARREN SWAIN







    3. Agreement




    4. MARTIN HOGG







    5. Bargain




    6. JONATHAN MORGAN







    7. Key Themes in the Teaching of Remedies




    8. DAVID CAMPBELL







    9. Exploitation




    10. RICK BIGWOOD







    11. Law in Action




    12. SALLY WHEELER







    13. Students as Consumers: Using Student Experiences to Teach Consumer Contract Law




    14. RICHARD HYDE







    15. Teaching the Law of Contract in a World of New Transactional Technologies




    16. ROGER BROWNSWORD







    17. Contract Theory




    18. BRIAN H BIX







    19. Teaching Contracts from the Perspective of Relational Contract Theory




    20. PAUL GUDEL







    21. Human Rights Reasoning and the Contract Law Scholar




    22. PAUL WRAGG







    23. Contract Law Teaching: Teaching from the Case Law




    24. DAVID CAPPER







    25. Making Use of New Technology




    26. JESSICA VIVEN-WILKSCH







    27. Doing Away with the Case Method: What Could Go Wrong?




    28. MARCUS ROBERTS







    29. Insights from Outside the Common Law




    30. JOHN CARTWRIGHT







    31. Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda




    WARREN SWAIN

    Biography

    Warren Swain is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK.



    David Campbell is Professor of Law in the Law School at Lancaster University, UK, and Visiting Professor, Auckland University of Technology Law School, New Zealand.