Contracts: Cases and Materials

This classic casebook offers first-year students a solid and inviting introduction to contract law, recognizing both the English and American common law traditions and bringing them into our age of statutes, most particularly the Uniform Commercial Code. This casebook features carefully-selected cases, well-tailored notes and problems, and authoritative textual discussions of major developments in current contract law. These include the meaning of assent and agreement (with particular focus on the online environment and in the context of mandatory arbitration clauses); attention to comparative and international approaches; and accessible discussion of theoretical underpinnings of contract doctrine, the importance of which remain a mainstay of this new edition. The casebook is ecumenical in its outlook, presenting a well-balanced approach that is usable by professors with a wide-range of theoretical outlooks and pedagogical styles. Cases are situated within a variety of disciplines – history, economics, philosophy, and ethics – and present the law in a variety of typical settings – commercial, familial, employment, consumer, real estate and so on.https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1180/thumbnail.jp

Contracts: Cases and Materials

This classic casebook offers first-year students a solid and inviting introduction to contract law, recognizing both the English and American common law traditions and bringing them into our age of statutes, most particularly the Uniform Commercial Code. This casebook features carefully-selected cases, well-tailored notes and problems, and authoritative textual discussions of major developments in current contract law. These include the meaning of assent and agreement (with particular focus on the online environment and in the context of mandatory arbitration clauses); attention to comparative and international approaches; and accessible discussion of theoretical underpinnings of contract doctrine, the importance of which remain a mainstay of this new edition. The casebook is ecumenical in its outlook, presenting a well-balanced approach that is usable by professors with a wide-range of theoretical outlooks and pedagogical styles. Cases are situated within a variety of disciplines – history, economics, philosophy, and ethics – and present the law in a variety of typical settings – commercial, familial, employment, consumer, real estate and so on.https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1180/thumbnail.jp

Differential effects of cocaine and pentobarbital on fixed-interval and random-interval performance.

Reports have indicated that the behavioral effects of a drug can be related to the nondrug control rate of behavior in the absence of the drug. To investigate the purported relationship between control rate and drug rate, squirrel monkeys were trained under a fixed-interval 300-s schedule of stimulus-shock termination, a procedure that engendered a wide range of response rates. A light illuminated the experimental chamber during the fixed interval, and the first lever press after 300 s had elapsed terminated the light for 30 s and precluded an electrical stimulus to the tail. Following acute intramuscular administration of cocaine (0.03-0.56 mg/kg), overall rate increased and different control rates of responding, during different parts of the fixed interval, converged toward a common rate. Subsequently, the schedule was changed to a multiple fixed-interval 300-s random-interval 300-s schedule; performance during the random-interval component was characterized by steady responding at a uniformly high rate. Analysis of fixed-interval and random-interval performances following acute cocaine administration revealed convergence of response rates toward a common, uniform rate. Pentobarbital (0.3-10.0 mg/kg) only decreased overall rate, and different control rates of responding during the fixed interval did not converge toward a common rate. The results indicate that this type of analysis can be useful in comparing pharmacological agents from different classes and that the rate at which responding becomes uniform can provide a quantitative behavioral end point for characterizing drug effects on behavior