Law School for Everyone: Contracts

De: David Horton, The Great Courses

Narrado por: Professor David Horton

Duración: 6 h y 30 m

Resumen del Editor

What, exactly, are you doing when you agree to a contract? Should courts blindly enforce fine print that nobody ever reads? Where’s the line between salesmanship and outright fraud? Should written contracts carry more weight than verbal ones?

Join Professor Horton for an accessible introduction from contract essentials, including offers, acceptances, counteroffers, and options and defenses, to contract enforcement, such as fraud, duress, and unconscionability. In lectures that demystify concepts and terms that can often seem intimidating to individuals outside of legal fields, you’ll better understand (and navigate) the contracts of everyday life.

Legal concepts come alive in court cases that range from the outrageous to the heart-rending to the ridiculous. Among the many cases you’ll examine are those involving a contract for the sale of a farm written on a piece of scratch paper, a young man who claimed a soda company owed him a fighter jet, and two companies that couldn’t agree on the meaning of the word "chicken".

Professor Horton shatters the stereotype of contract law as dry and complex and transforms it into a profoundly accessible learning experience. The result is an education in contract law - and in the American legal system - that’s unlike anything you’ll find outside a top-tier law school.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Contract Law

This book helps to make the class make more sense. I giggled when the professor said this is fun. I thought, "said no law school student, EVER!" but he really does make it fun.

Tobias Fünke

sounds like Tobias Fünke

I have a contracts final coming up 😬 1L woot woot

Excellent Resource

Excellent lectures to further my study of contract law. I’m enrolled in a Business Law undergraduate course. The chapter titles and accompanying PDF are excellent references. I highly recommend.

GREAT!

Best Great Course! Subject is close to average person experiences of trying to make fair agreements with others and dealing with corporations. This means both that the courtroom drama is interesting and that the average person is already partly familiar with the concepts. The subject is also filled with important concrete sourced information and no speculation is needed to fill an audiobook. Author writes clearly and engagingly. Performer reads clearly and without any unnecessary pauses, unlike many GC.

Hard to keep up

the terminology and everything else and it gets a little confusing after a while but nonetheless easy enough to understand

lot of info to learn

there is quite a lot of information to process but easy to digest. it stays very positive and interesting.

Informative, plain spoken, a good deep dive.

I wouldn’t recommend as a first course, there’s quite a bit of legal jargon, but it is a easily understood and well explained breakdown of contracts and navigation of contract law.

everything I wanted

I enjoyed all if it, beginning to end. I would like to be provided some case studies to reference.

Solid review summary

These are not lectures, they're quick summaries, but I like this a lot better than the "AudioLearn - A Course Outline" audible books. This does a decent job of summarizing contracts for first-year law students, but do not expect to learn new concepts from this. It's just skimming and moves over things too quickly to be a primary source for anything. If you're studying for an exam, this is like an aural version of the outline you should have made for yourself already. If you know the material and you're only reviewing, this might be a good fit. That's the only way to get through all of contracts in 6 hours.

Subjectively, I don't really like the voice. It's youthful, thin, cheerful, conversational in tone, and doesn't have the weight or gravitas that law should in my opinion.

LAST ONE in series and probable the most needed

The is the last one in the series (and MUST BE LISTENED TO LAST) and probably the most needed for people who will not be lawyers.

This should probably be twice as long and it is. There are parts which were poorly explained. There are parts which are definitely Federal and not state law. ALL the state laws are different enough that my corp lawyer argued for items to be argued in the state she liked.

Honestly, I don't know where to go after this for MORE, but I feel like I need MORE after this, even more than before I started the first course.