Contracts I - Professor Ferriell


 

Course Title

Contracts I

Professor

Professor Ferriell
 

First Assignment

Text Books

Ertman, Sjostrom, & Threedy, Contract Law – An Integrated Approach ISBN 978-1-68328-797 (Foundation Press 2020).                                         

Burton & Eisenberg, Contract Law: Selected Source Materials, Annotated. This is the “statutory supplement.”  Any recent edition is fine

  • 2021 edition is ISBN: 9781647088620 (this is the Expanded Edition, that seems to be only $1 more than the smaller abridged version).
  • 2020 edition is ISBN 9781647080761 (this is the Expanded Edition, that seems to be only $1 more than the smaller version)
  • 2019 edition is ISBN 978-1642429305
  • 2018 edition ISBN: 978-1642420265
  • 2017 edition ISBN: 978-1683287773  
  • 2016 edition ISBN: 978-1634607483
  • 2015 edition, ISBN: 978-1634595551 
  • 2013 or 2014 or even earlier versions going back to 2010 or so are probably also fine.

Jeffrey Ferriell, UNDERSTANDING CONTRACTS (4th ed. 2018, Carolina Academic Press) ISBN 978-1-5310-0993-9.  The 3d edition of this contains much of the same information as in the 4th edition. Section numbers are the same as in the 4th edition

Bring the casebook (Ertman, et al) and the Statutory Supplement (Burton & Eisenberg) to class with you every single day.

Class Schedules for Day Section B and Evening Section M

  • Day Section B will meet Monday, Tuesday & Friday this week at 3:00 pm as reflected in the course schedule  – after this week, we’ll only meet on Tuesday & Friday. There will be an average of one hour of pre-recorded lectures that you should watch and taken notes on as indicated in the schedule in the syllabus.
  • Evening Section M will meet Monday 7:55-9:30 on Monday and 6:00-6:55 on Friday. After the first week we will meet only until 9:00 pm. There will be an average of one hour of pre-recorded lectures that you should watch and taken notes on as indicated in the schedule in the syllabus.

Before the week begins: 

  • Logon to your account on TWEN (The West Education Network) and add to your list of courses 
  • Navigate around TWEN to find the syllabus and review it carefully (it’s very, very detailed)
  • Download the “Socrative” Student App to your Smartphone and take the preview quiz in the Room “KFALL” it’ll be up and running by August 15. 
  • Show up to class on Monday with the Socrative Student App ready to go, and logged into the appropriate Socrative Room:
    • FerriellB (Day Students
    • FerriellM (Evening Students)
  • Watch YouTube audio slide presentation, (which Day students are watching for Torts anyway, I suspect, on “Steps in a Lawsuit” by former Capital Law School Prof. Angela Upchurch in conjunction with Capital Prof. Susan Gilles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS3d5IGD60M
  • Watch YouTube presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzq-x-hytJY on the Common Law & Stare Decisis
  • Use the Code located on the inside cover of your copy of the book to gain access to the online resources for the book located on eproducts.WestAcademic.com – you’ll find more detailed instructions in the Week 01 Course Materials Folder on TWEN
  • Complete Module 1 of the Online Materials at eproducts.WestAcademic.com for the Ertman casebook
  • Login to Echo360.org and find the prerecorded lectures for your section of Contracts I

Before Monday (Day) or First half of Monday (Evening)

  • Echo360.org Audio Slide Presentations for Week 01: 01-01 through 01-06 
  • Answer the Socrative Questions associated with the Echo360 Slides at KFALL
  • “Understanding Contracts” § 1.01 & 1.03, 1.04
  • Read and takes notes on the materials in the casebook: (Threedy, et al) 
    • pp. lxv-lxxix1 
    • pp. 1-10, including a brief of Slodov v. Animal Protective League (full text of decision available on TWEN) 

Before Class Tuesday (Day) or Second half of Monday Evening

  • Echo360.org Audio Slide Presentations for Week 01: 01-07 & 08
  • Read and take careful notes from the following materials in the statutory supplement:
    • Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) §§ 2-102 & 2-105(1) 
    • Restatement 2d §§ 1 & 2
  • Read and takes notes on the materials in the casebook: (Threedy, et al) 
    • Lohman v.Wagner at p. 11-17 of the casebook
    • Bonebrake v. Cox (on TWEN: Course Materials: Fall – Week 01)

Before Friday’s Class:

  • Watch the Echo360 Audio Slide Presentations for this Week 01: 06-08 (yep – watch them again)
  • UCC §§ 2-102 & 2-105(1), 2-107
  • Read and take notes on the materials at pp. 5-22, including brief of Advent Sys. Ltd. v. Unisys, Corp. at p. 17-21 of the casebook.

After Friday’s Classes

  • Participate in Week 01 Forum on TWEN by Friday, Sept. 3