Calamari and Perillo on Contracts (Hornbook Series Student Edition)

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Summary: Best Hornbook I Own
Review: And I own far too many, especially for someone who actually spends time writing Amazon reviews.

This book does a great job of explaining the policy and history-succinctly-behind most of the rules and theories we've covered in class and in the casebook.

I think this is my favorite hornbook, but I give it four stars for not giving as much insight into specific cases as other hornbooks do.

Rating:
Summary: No So Good
Review: As fair as studies aids go, this one is not very good. While concise and simple, the book really lacks the aid aspect. This book is like buying a textbook and reading it. In addition, I felt it times it wasn't very useful. I would read the UCC (especially 2-207) material and feel like I wasn't any better off than when I left class. I would buy instead the Emmanuel's and/or the Emmanuel Flash Cards if you want a stronger study aid. Unlike those additions, this book lacks the useful charts and acronyms that help when you're trying to remember the series of questions to ask yourself on the exam. In essence, if you are going to buy only one guide, and you don't need a second textbook, don't buy this one. However, if you haven't been going to your first year classes this is a good book to buy.

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Summary: Excellent hornbook
Review: If you're a One-L looking for a study aid for your Contracts class, you won't find a better hornbook than this one. Calamari's classic text provides clear and intelligible discussion of the basic principles of contract law.

Also consider the student edition of E. Allan Farnsworth's treatise on Contracts; the original was three volumes long, but the student edition is condensed to one. Farnsworth's discussion is more in-depth, wide-ranging, and denser than Calamari's, so I used Calamari to get principles clear and then turned to Farnsworth for elaboration.

Get both if you can; otherwise get this one first. That's my recommendation, anyway.

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Summary: VERY GOOD OVERVIEW OF U.S. CONTRACT LAW
Review: This book is a must for lawyers and scholars from the continental law area because it provides a clear and general overview of the fundamental issues related with contract law.
For those that want to explore more in depth specific issues, then professor Farnsworth's Treatise on the subject would be the reference text. For legal students in the common law sistem it gives a very useful approach to the subject matter.