Contract Texts, Contract Teaching, Contract Law: Comment on Lawrence Cunningham, \u3ci\u3eContracts in the Real World\u3c/i\u3e

Lawrence Cunningham’s Contracts in the Real World offers a good starting place for necessary conversations about how contract law should be taught, and, more generally, for when and how cases—in summary form or in longer excerpts—are useful in teaching the law. This Article tries to offer some reasons for thinking that their prevalence may reflect important truths about contract law in particular and law and legal education in general