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This innovative casebook places students in roles as practitioners handling simulated law practice problems; provides context in the form of an overview of the law; includes exercises, visual aids, case illustrations, and call-out notes designed to promote self-reflective reading; spells out how the issues covered in the chapter tend to arise; and ends with professionalism inquiries addressing ethical and professional identity questions suggested by the materials in the chapter. The use of color, charts, diagrams, and illustrations throughout the book add visual interest, promote clarity, and provide emphasis to aid comprehension. The fourth edition of Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook modernizes many existing problems and exercises, while introducing new ones that draw upon legal pedagogy scholarship and address important issues intersecting law, equity, policy, and culture. It incorporates a strengthened focus on transactional skills, including a new exercise emphasizing negotiation and revision of potential contract provisions. Each chapter in this edition offers sections on spotting and analyzing the issues covered, both in law practice and exam hypotheticals. This text devotes an entire chapter to explaining and illustrating responses to contracts essay examination questions and multiple-choice questions that have been substantially revised with Carolina Academic Press's Core Knowledge software. Preceding chapters include dozens of practice problems, many of which were created in collaboration with practicing attorneys.