LoaLS: Contracts
By Neil Wehneman
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Podcast Description
The Life of a Law Student podcasts chronicle the material presented to and learned by law students across the country and around the world. The project is led by Neil Wehneman, an incoming transfer student at Indiana University at Indianapolis. Feeds are segmented by course.
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Contracts #40: Closing Out | In this episode I close out the course and explain what's ahead for Contracts. | 1/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #39: Restitution Damages and Specific Performance | We finally come to our final contracts episode. Here we will look at the restitution interest, and the possible remedy of specific performance. United States ... | 1/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #38: Reliance Damages | Sometimes, for reasons discussed in earlier episodes, expectation damages will not be allowable. Other times, the expected damages will be zero or negative (ie ... | 1/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #37: Agreed Remedies | The expectation damages analysis can be circumvented if the parties agree in advance what the damages for breach would be. However, these agreed remedies ... | 1/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #36: Mitigation | We now turn to the mitigation limit on expectation damages. What must a plaintiff in a breach action do in order to mitigate damages? Rockingham ... | 1/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #35: General and Special Damages | We continue our discussion of expectation damages by looking at the forseeability element. General and special damages will be examined and differentiated. Hadley v. Baxendale Florafax ... | 1/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #34: Expectation Damages | We now examine one of the most frequent ways of determining damages:the expectations of the injured party. We will discuss and apply the expectation ... | 12/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #33: Express Conditions | Express conditions are a way for the parties to structure which duties come due when. Oftentimes the non-occurrence of an express condition will prevent ... | 12/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #32: Changed Circumstances | Change happens. Sometimes, that change is sufficient for a court to release one party to a contract from their duties. We will examine ... | 12/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #31: Breach III | We will briefly examine constructive conditions before transitioning onto repudiation. We'll determine what remedies are available to someone who reasonably believes that the other ... | 12/4/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #30: Breach II | What is the difference between a material breach and an immaterial breach? Once we have a material breach, what's the difference between a partial ... | 11/30/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #29: Breach I | Studying contracts can get much more exciting when a party breaches their contract. We'll examine what a breach is, and see how the doctrine ... | 11/30/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #28: Parol Evidence II | In this episode we will discuss patent and latent ambiguities, while also looking at situations where the parol evidence rule does not apply at all. ... | 11/30/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #27: Parol Evidence I | In this episode we will get an introduction to the parol evidence rule, and when it can be invoked. Thompson v. Libby | 11/30/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #26: Interpretation Overview II | We continue our discussion of contractual interpretation. We will also look at ten canons of construction that judges often use when interpreting contracts. C #38; ... | 11/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #25: Interpretation Overview I | We have a contract, with lots and lots of big words within it. What do we do when the parties who created the contract ... | 11/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #24: Statute of Frauds II | We continue our discussion of the Statute of Frauds. We also spend some time exploring the UCC's view of the Statute, along with some ... | 11/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #23: Statute of Frauds I | We finally get around to discussing and (hopefully) understanding the Statute of Frauds. In a nutshell, the Statute of Frauds govern under what circumstances ... | 11/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #22: Modification of Contracts | Circumstances change, and sometimes contracts need to be modified. When are these modifications binding? Alaska Packers' Association v. Domenico Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Galtaco Redlaw Castings Corp. ... | 10/31/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #21: Warranties | What warranties and obligations are imposed by law on those who sell goods? Can those warranties and obligations be disclaimed? In this episode ... | 10/31/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #20: Requirements Contracts | A requirements contract is one in which a buyer agrees to purchase all of a commodity that they require from a (generally larger) vendor. ... | 10/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #19: Good Faith | We will briefly examine the concept of "good faith" in this episode. Our featured case involves a sordid triangle between Clint Eastwood, his former ... | 10/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #18: Implied Terms | Is a court constrained to the literal text of the contract in front of it? Of course not! Implied-in-law and implied-in-fact terms help ... | 10/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #17: Gateway Cases (Terms After Sale) | In what our casebook describes as "electronic contracting", we will examine two cases (both involving Gateway) that deal with the question of what terms can ... | 10/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #16: Agreeing to Agree | Can two parties agree to part of their contract in definite terms, and then further agree to come to agreement at a future date on ... | 10/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #15: Battle of the Forms | The Uniform Commercial Code attempts to sidestep some of the problems with the common law's "last shot rule" by creating a new set of rules ... | 10/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #14: Form Contracts, Princess Cruises v. GE | As nice as true and complete "meetings of the minds" would be, most of modern contracting is done via form contract. Princess Cruises v. ... | 10/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #13: General and Sub Contractors | A sub contractor submits a bid, which the general contractor relies on in making his bid. The general contractor wins the project, but the ... | 9/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #12: Option Contracts | An offer to contract is generally revokable at will, unless you have an option contract. In this episode we examine option contracts. Berryman v. Kmoch (no ... | 9/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #11: Unilateral Contracts | In this episode we discuss unilateral contracts and recent developments in the doctrines that apply to them. Petterson v. Pattberg (no link available) Cook v. Coldwell Banker/Frank ... | 9/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #10: Offers | We will start looking now at the formation of contracts, and one of those essential aspects of formation is that of an offer. To ... | 9/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #9: Public Policy | We continue our discussion on unconscionability by transitioning into public policy. Our discussion of public policy centers around a non-compete agreement and a contract ... | 9/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #8: Unconscionability | What is unconscionability? What do we do when we find a contract that contains unconscionable clauses? Answers to these questions and more await ... | 9/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #7: More on Consideration | We continue to examine consideration, looking at some interesting cases dealing with donative promises, unequal consideration, and conditions placed on receiving consideration. Dougherty v. Salt (No ... | 9/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #6: Consideration | We come at last to the fundamental basis of contract law in the Anglo-American systems: consideration. We attempt to define it, and look at ... | 9/11/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #5: Fraud and Mistake | In this episode we examine the equitable options available when a contract is entered under either fraud or mistake. The relevant cases are Syvester ... | 9/7/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #4: Minor Disavowing and Economic Duress | In this episode we examine the ability of minors to disavow contracts, along with the doctrine of economic duress. Dodson v. Shrader (no link available) Totem Marine ... | 9/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #3: Agency, Restitution, and Promissory Estoppel | In this episode we examine and apply the doctrines of agency, restitution, and promissory estoppel. Due to the fact that we are dealing with state cases, ... | 8/29/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #2: History of Contract Law and Intent To Be Bound | In this episode we examine some of the history of contract law, some of the statutory and pseudo-statutory elements of contracts, and look at some ... | 8/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #1: Introduction to Contracts | In this, the first episode of Contracts, we examine the definition of contracts, some basic (but non-exhaustive) elements of contracts, some hypothetical contractual situations, and ... | 8/24/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contracts #0: Life of a Law Student Overview | In this episode I explain what Life of a Law Student is all about, what it's not about, and the format I will be using. | 8/2/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 41 Episodes |
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