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course title: Contracts
lecturer: Shane Dizon
course description
Professor Shane Dizon explains the formation of a contract; the creation and interpretation of contract terms; the variety of defenses to a contract; the rights and obligations pertaining to the performance and breach of a contract; and the types and scope of remedies. No prior knowledge of contracts law is assumed. The goal of the course is to prepare a first-year law student for a final exam in contracts.
| course outline | duration |
|---|---|
| Introduction | 02 : 48 |
| Welcome | 02 : 48 |
| Forming a Contract | 44 : 08 |
| Using Contract Vocabulary and Identifying the Elements of Contract | 13 : 39 |
| Determining Which Law Applies: UCC or Common Law | 06 : 20 |
| I Offered, or Did I? | 16 : 20 |
| Accepting an Offer | 07 : 49 |
| Creating and Interpreting Contract Terms | 36 : 55 |
| Creating Sales Contracts and The Battle of the Forms | 15 : 10 |
| Clarifying the Terms: The Rules on Mistake | 04 : 43 |
| Examining How We Agreed: Parol Evidence, Integration and Merger | 07 : 22 |
| Relying on the Rules of the Road: Ambiguous Terms and Business Practice | 09 : 40 |
| Defenses to Contract | 45 : 01 |
| When We Can't Say Yes: Capacity and Legality | 13 : 46 |
| When Parties Aim to Deceive: Misrepresentation, Duress, and Fraud | 14 : 52 |
| When We Can't Let You Do That: Unconscionability | 09 : 17 |
| When There Is No Way to Perform: Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration of Purpose | 07 : 06 |
| Contract Performance and Breach | 60 : 25 |
| Performing One Step at a Time: Conditions and Installments | 13 : 30 |
| Answering to Another Power: Third Party Rights | 19 : 30 |
| Doing Enough Is As Good As Doing It All? The Rule of Substantial Performance | 11 : 24 |
| Relying on the Other Guy's "No": Anticipatory Repudiation | 11 : 43 |
| Selling Goods Is Hard to Do? The Perfect Tender Rule | 04 : 18 |
| Remedies | 64 : 14 |
| Measuring Common-Law Legal Damages (Expectancy, Reliance, and So On) | 14 : 08 |
| Equitable Damages and the Irreplaceable: Specific Performance | 05 : 50 |
| Equitable Damages and Avoiding Injustice: Quasi-Contract and Restitution | 09 : 22 |
| When Buying and Selling Goes Bad: The UCC and Damages | 21 : 10 |
| Piling It On: Liquidated and Punitive Damages | 06 : 52 |
| Putting the Fire Out Yourself: Avoiding Loss and the Duty to Mitigate | 06 : 52 |
| Conclusion | 22 : 27 |
| Recap | 03 : 03 |
| Helpful Hints on Outlining Contracts | 09 : 28 |
| Helpful Hints on Taking Contracts Exams | 09 : 56 |
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