Welcome to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law! 

My name is Doron Kalir, and I'll be your Contract Law professor. I look forward to meeting each of you – either in person, or via Zoom.

My original intention was to teach this semester in the following hybrid manner. Now that has changed, and I decided, with a heavy heart, to teach remotely. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. 

In the following lines I will address the books you should purchase and the assignment you have to complete before our first class.

Books:

Book # 1: Please purchase the casebook, Problems in Contract Law (Knapp, Crystal, et al., 8thEdition);

(Please be sure to purchase ONLY the 8th edition of the book, NOT the 9th. Also, there is NO reason to buy the book with the so-called “access code.” And, by all means, you can surely buy a USED COPY. i received several questions about both (edition and access code), and the answer is a simple No.) 

Book # 2: Please also purchase the Statutory Supplement of the Casebook, Rules of Contract Law, by Knapp, Crystal et al., from 2017-18. (Same caveats apply). 

Reading Assignments:

Your Reading Assignments for the first week of class are the following:

A. For our first class, on Tuesday Aug. 25, please read pages 1-17 & 29-41.

Pages 1-17 include some background information on the study of contract law; we will discuss some of it briefly in class.

Ray v. William G. Eurice & Bros., Inc. will be our first Contract Law case. Please be sure to read it carefully, at least twice.

Please think of the following ten questions (which I will repeat regarding every case we’ll learn this semester): 

1. In this case – like in any other case - A sued B. Who is A? Who is B?

2. What did A argue? (This is referred to as the "claimed facts"). 

3. What did A want? (This is referred to as "remedy"). 

4. What did B argue in response? (This is a key feature of our "adversarial court system." Each side makes different - and often opposing - claims.)

5. What did the court (below) decide? Did it Give A what they wanted? (This is referred to as the "lower court holding"). 

6. What was the lower court's reasoning? 

7. Who appealed the decision? (That person is referred to as the “Appellant”; the other party to the appeal is the "Appellee"). 

8. What did Appellant argue on Appeal? What did Appellee argue back? (note that the adversity continues on appeal). 

9. What did the court of appeals decide? Who "won" the case? 

10. What was the Court of Appeals’ reasoning?

 

Looking forward to our first class together! 

Doron