What is a contract? How can you make one binding? How can you avoid being prematurely bound by one? What can you do to get out of a contract? What remedies are available if someone breaches your contract? What special rules apply to international contracts?
These questions and the other important issues of legally enforceable promises are covered in the eight lectures of this course.
Key concepts covered include:
- offer and acceptance
- consideration
- mistake and fraud
- "diminished capacity'
- enforcement
- third-party contracts
- international contracts.