This book explores the complexities of contracts in a real world context through a series of engaging real life stories.

Lawrence A. Cunningham is the Henry St George Tucker III Research Professor at George Washington University Law School. He has been a professor of law and business for more than twenty years at Boston College, Massachusetts, George Washington University, and Yeshiva University, New York. He is the author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (2013) and editor from 1994 to 2001 of the leading treatise on contract law, Corbin on Contracts. His writing has appeared opposite the editorial page in The New York Times, Financial Times and the National Law Journal.

Introduction; 1. Getting in: contract formation; 2. Facing limits: unenforceable bargains; 3. Getting out: excuses and termination; 4. Paying up: remedies; 5. Rewinding: restitution and unjust enrichment; 6. Writing it down: interpretation, parol, frauds; 7. Performing: duties, modification, good faith; 8. Hedging: conditions; 9. Considering others: third parties and society; Appendix A: offering and accepting; Appendix B: buying and selling goods; Table of cases.