Contracts I

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Required Course: First Year Students Fall Semester Course Requirement: exam Contracts I: Formation introduces students to law practice and policy by exploring the creation of agreements that courts will enforce. Specific topics include consideration, mutual assent (offer and acceptance), and defenses thereto (including the statute of frauds). Substantively, students learn legal doctrine as described in the Restatement (Second) of Contracts and the Uniform Commercial Code Art. 2. Procedurally, students learn how to analyze legal situations by operating rules on facts and to express this analysis in structured writing. Classroom lessons are augmented with online learning modules, formative assessments, practice problems, and model answers.