Course Guides - Contracts

Course Description

This course seeks to explore fully the nature and role of contract. The fundamental concepts of mutual assent, performance and remedies at common law and in a modern post-industrial economy are examined at length, with special emphasis on sales. Throughout the course, special effort is made to develop both philosophical and economic theories of contract. (6 credits) Required Course

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• Nicholas S. Fisfis (Professor of Law)
• Amelia M. Joiner (Assistant Professor of Law)
• John E. Murray, Jr. (Chancellor of the University and Professor of Law)
• Alfred S. Pelaez (Duquesne University Distinguished Professor of Law)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

Print Collection

KF801-KF1241

Legal Research Databases

• Hein Online
• Lexis

Corbin on Contracts (Legal Tab > Secondary Legal > Matthew Bender > By Area of Law > Contracts) Also available in print

•  Westlaw
• BNA Online
• CCH Library - Intelliconnect
• Legal Scholarship Network
• CALI

Microfiche Collection

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, and federal and state case law)
• Legal Research Guides: Contracts, Commercial Law

Under Subject Area:

• Commercial Law

Course Listed Under the following Law School Areas of Interest:

• Commercial Law