Academic

This fall I will be teaching first-year Contracts again for the first time in three years. Being a loyal Wisconsinite, I will be using Contracts: Law in Action (the so-called "Wisconsin materials"), a new edition of which is forthcoming just in time for the start of class. 

I have not done a survey of Contracts casebooks, but I suppose that the Wisconsin materials are as well suited to a transactional approach as the next casebook. The voluminous notes with background information on the cases lend themselves to transactional discussions, and I would like to be more self-conscious about bringing those insights into the classroom this year.

Last summer Erin O'Hara did a presentation in a plenary session at the AALS Workshop on Transactional Law on her plan to develop materials for a casebook featuring a transactional approach to Contracts. This summer Tina Stark hosted her a conference on Transactional Education, which featured some discussion (available on Emory iTunes) of first-year Contracts. And Tina has a start on assembling transactional materials. 

Building on this foundation, I have a modest proposal: if you are teaching Contracts this fall and would be interested in corresponding about integrating transactional approaches into a traditional doctrinal course, please email me. I don't have a grand plan, but my hope is that we might get a group who would be willing to share ideas and perhaps materials on a listserv. We don't need to be using the same casebook, as I assume we are all covering roughly similar ground in the introductory course.