http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/index.htmlHot News!enhkalodner@law.wnec.eduCopyright 2010 Howard Kalodner2011-06-15T16:33:24-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:40:57 -0400hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-06-15T16:33:24-04:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/7f965f30f753418a5527ff93df4b3d5a-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/7f965f30f753418a5527ff93df4b3d5a-23.html#unique-entry-id-23
After I finished drafting the examination, I sat down and attempted to write an answer to it. This is not a perfect answer but it will, I hope, help you understand the somewhat cryptic notes that I have included in the grading form. I am including, without changes, the answer I wrote. I plan on appending to this blog a video podcast with some comments about how the class went about answering these questions and what I have learned from what you wrote. But first, my draft answer:]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-05-01T10:36:38-04:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/ac7af90496a02f194092ccca2a57718e-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/ac7af90496a02f194092ccca2a57718e-22.html#unique-entry-id-22
Contract Interpretation
Preliminary Negotiations
Anticipatory Repudiation
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In 2008, I prepared three brief podcasts, each addressing one of the questions in the 2008 Final Examination. Since I know that a number of you have used questions from that examination as practice questions in your review, I thought it might be useful to post those three podcasts to our course website. Here are the links:

Question 1
Question 2
Question 3]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-03-31T14:07:26-04:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/0aa82b06705870be225eba659baade5c-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/0aa82b06705870be225eba659baade5c-20.html#unique-entry-id-20Transatlantic Financing v. U.S., Judge Skelly Wright proposes a three-part test to determine whether a plea of impossibility as a defense to breach can be persuasively advanced. Since our discussion of the impossibility cases has not yet made clear the elements of this three-part test, I have created a slide presentation to help focus our attention on the Wright analysis.

Skelly Wright’s Impossibility Analysis]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-03-28T08:12:42-04:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/9c04c6bf3b17078d0d4f000eef153817-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/9c04c6bf3b17078d0d4f000eef153817-19.html#unique-entry-id-19In the Spring of 2009, I provided my Contracts class with a brief review of the doctrine(s) of Mistake. This, in combination with the class recordings of the week of March 21, 2011, provide a useful resource for your own review of this body of law.
Mistake Review]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-03-03T16:42:15-05:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/f23f706f9dd0e2e7b001f2ccfaaf9638-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/f23f706f9dd0e2e7b001f2ccfaaf9638-18.html#unique-entry-id-18We will be able to watch just a bit of an interview conducted by a contracts law professor in 2004. The interview was with Matt Zeidenberg, the defendant in ProCD v. Zeidenberg and with his attorney David Austin.]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-02-28T19:04:32-05:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/fb0d0dab23ca4e2ca06a1b4834af4355-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/fb0d0dab23ca4e2ca06a1b4834af4355-17.html#unique-entry-id-17I have prepared some slides to use in our class on the Statute of Frauds. The slides contain both an outline of major points and some hypotheticals to help in discussion of the Statute of Frauds.
Slide Show]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-02-22T08:48:43-05:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/8445f0b8c48eb7a0e795a5e54580fce1-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/8445f0b8c48eb7a0e795a5e54580fce1-16.html#unique-entry-id-16You may find useful this brief slideshow on the Parol Evidence Rule.]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-02-12T15:30:45-05:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/501aa2305920bd41eb3cef7b2a19ddcc-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/501aa2305920bd41eb3cef7b2a19ddcc-15.html#unique-entry-id-15In the Fall Term, we saw that reliance plays an important role in determining the enforceability of the promise on which the promisee relied. If the promisee’s reliance was bargained for, it represents the consideration advanced by the promisee in support of the promisor’s promise. ]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-02-09T09:24:44-05:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/ba1f6a8d4ba3fa6f075a58ad77e965b7-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/ba1f6a8d4ba3fa6f075a58ad77e965b7-14.html#unique-entry-id-14As you know, we spent very little time on mailbox acceptance rules, and our casebook has a very limited presentation on that subject. I have prepared a set of slides setting out the mailbox acceptance rule and its applications.]]>hkalodner@law.wnec.eduNone2011-01-27T11:47:09-05:00http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/027c62d7dc0751a7aceac2cdb839b3f7-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.kalodner.com/contracts/page6/files/027c62d7dc0751a7aceac2cdb839b3f7-13.html#unique-entry-id-13Two years ago, I prepared a presentation which attempts to summarize the Contracts Law rules of offer and acceptance. This is a QuickTime file and it can be watched using QuickTime (proprietary software from apple.com) or VLC (open source software available from videolan.org). It is not an exhaustive presentation, but may help provide you with a framework for your future outline of this topic. See Offer and Acceptance podcast. If that version fails to play, please use this link..]]>