Contracts Resource Guide
This selective guide highlights major print and electronic resources available to Cleveland Marshall Law School students researching issues in Contract Law. Please contact the Research Services librarians during their regularly scheduled hours , or via email to research.services@law.csuohio.edu for help in locating these or other resources to meet your needs. Some of the links below lead to Westlaw and LexisNexis files, which require a valid student password for access. Some link to records in the Law Library catalog, SCHOLAR. Use your browser's back button to return to this page. Introduction Major
Treatises and Practice Guides Searching SCHOLAR and OhioLINK Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services Aggregate Files and Other Web Resources Contract law includes the concepts of: formation, offer, acceptance, and consideration; performance and excuse for nonperformance; breach and damages; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; statute of frauds; contract integration rule; illegal contracts and public policy; unconscionability; and discharge. One major portion of this area of law can be found in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
Legislation & Case LawUniform Commercial Code – Uniform Laws Annotated / West Publishing Co.,1968 - . Master ed, KF 879 .A45 U5 (Westlaw - ULA) Title 13 of the Ohio Revised Code (Commercial Transactions - Ohio's UCC) (LAWriter - from the Ohio state government website).Unannotated. Select the appropriate chapter. The following are Ohio's two annotated codes:
LexisNexis – Ohio Contract Cases Selected general contract law from OH combined cases decided by the Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio Court of Appeals and various Ohio Miscellaneous Courts. Federal & State Cases - Selected Contract Law Material for the multistate library of contracts cases. Westlaw - OHCML-CS Cases from Ohio state courts that relate to the Uniform Commercial Code and the law of contracts and collections. Coverage begins with 1821. See also Multi State Database - MCML-CS Cases from the state courts of all 50 states and the District of Columbia that relate to the Uniform Commercial Code and the law of contracts and collections. Coverage varies by state. See also Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Commercial Law & Contracts > State Cases > Key Number Service topics .
Major Treatises and Practice GuidesSelected significant treatises and practice guides in the Law Library collection which provide a foundation in issues of contract law include the following: Calamari and Perillo on Contracts, 5th Ed. / by Joseph M. Perillo. Thomson/West, 2003 KF801 .C26 2003 Contracts, 4th Ed. / by E. Allan Farnsworth. Aspen Publishers, 2004 KF801 .F365 2004 (Lexis - FARCON ) Corbin on Contracts, Rev. Ed. / by Arthur Linton Corbin. West Pub. Co., 1993- KF801 .C67 1993 (Lexis - CORBIN ) A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, 4th Ed. / by Samuel Williston . Lawyers Cooperative Pub.,1990- KF801 .W534 (Westlaw – WILLSTN-ALL ) Restatement of the Law, Second--Contracts 2d / as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C., May 17, 1979. American Law Institute Publishers, 1981-<1997 KF801 .A82 1981 - (Westlaw – REST-CONTR ; - Lexis ) Uniform Commercial Code, 5th Ed. / by James J. White and Robert S. Summers. West Group, 2000 KF890 .W45 2000b Westlaw – WS-UCC (use of this database is not authorized under Law School’s subscription agreement) Ohio Forms; Practice-Oriented Forms for Ohio Legal and Business Transactions. Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1970- KFO68.O35 - (Westlaw - OH-LF ) This database contains the full text of Ohio Forms Legal and Business, Ohio Forms Legal and Business, a 13-volume set of text and forms most commonly used in Ohio, arranged under topics that conform to traditional Ohio classification of legal subjects.
Ohio Transaction Guide : Legal Forms. M. Bender, 1975- KFO213.A65 O35 - (Lexis - Ohio Transaction Guide ) Provides practitioners with legal background, research tools, practice guides, and forms pertaining to practices involving business, wills and trusts, commercial, real estate, and personal transactions.
Study AidsOhio Board of Bar Examiners, Outline of Subjects Tested on Essay Portion of Ohio Bar Examination (Columbus, OH: Supreme Court of Ohio 1984-) Reserve KFO 76 .Z9 O8546 Outlines the subjects tested on the essay portion of the Ohio Bar Examination in order to provide a guide to bar examiners in drafting the essay questions. The Contracts section in the November 2002 edition provides citation to legal authorities in contracts as a convenience to the bar examiners and includes outlines for Formation, Third Party Beneficiary Contracts. Assignment and Delegation, Statute of Frauds, Parol Evidence Rule, Performance, Breach of Contract and Remedies, Discharge of Contracts, Impracticability of Performance and Frustration of Purpose, Unenforceability on Grounds of Public Policy (Illegal Contracts), Consideration of Fairness, Good Faith, and the Public Interest, UCC. Government Contracts in a Nutshell, 4th Ed. / by W. Noel Keyes Thomson/West, 2004 KF850 .K49 2004 One copy on Reserve and one in A066. Contract Remedies in a Nutshell / by Jane M. Friedman West Pub. Co., 1981 KF836 .Z9 F75 One copy on Reserve and one in A066. Contracts in a Nutshell, 6th Ed. / by Claude D. Rohwer, Anthony M. Skroki. West Group, 2006 KF801.Z9 R62 2006 One copy on Reserve and two copies in A066. Uniform Commercial Code in a Nutshell, 6th Ed. / by Bradford Stone. West Pub. Co., 2005 KF889.3 .S68 2005 One copy on Reserve and one in A066. Contracts / by Michael B. Kelly. Aspen Law & Business, 1997 KF801.Z9 K45 1997 Roadmap law course outline CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) Tutorials : CALI Library of Lessons Contracts highlights contracts law tutorials available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Students. You must register a personal password with CALI to use these tutorials. If you are a Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Student, and have not yet accessed CALI via our Law School subscription, Students click here
Searching Scholar and Ohiolink : ( Scholar hands-on instruction ) Search the main subject heading Contracts and Contracts – United States or any of the seventy plus (70+) related entries in our SCHOLAR and the OhioLINK catalogs. Others include: Statute of Frauds Uniform Commercial Code
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Articles and Current Awareness Services The Journal of Law and Commerce. University of Pittsburgh School of Law, c1981 - K10 .O87083 Westlaw - JLCOM DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal. DePaul University College of Law and the Commercial Law League of America, c2002- K4.E63 Westlaw - DPLBCLJ The Procurement Lawyer. Section of Public Contract Law, American Bar Association, 1994- KF849.A1 P8Public contract law journal. American Bar Association . Section of Public Contract Law, 1967/68- K16 .U17
Aggregate Files and Other Web ResourcesWestlaw: Topical Materials by Area of Practice - Commercial Law & Contracts All Databases > Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Commercial Law & Contracts Searchable databases include state and Federal cases relating to civil actions for contract violations; law reviews, texts, bar journals and legal-practice oriented periodicals relating to contract issues; forms, treatises and other practice materials related to contract law; as well as Federal and Uniform Laws (UCC)
Searchable databases include federal and state contracts cases, court rules, statutes and legislative materials, administrative materials and regulations, legal reference materials, Model ADR practices and procedures, law reviews and journals, treatises and analytical materials, legal and general news.
CORI: Contracting and Organizations Research Institute
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