Teaching Law and Theory through Context: Contract Clauses in Legal Studies Education

Autor/inn/en	DiMatteo, Larry A.; Anenson, T. Leigh
Titel	Teaching Law and Theory through Context: Contract Clauses in Legal Studies Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Legal Studies Education, 24 (2007) 1, S.19-57 (39 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0896-5811
DOI	10.1111/j.1744-1722.2007.00033.x
Schlagwörter	Theory Practice Relationship; Active Learning; Business Skills; Case Method (Teaching Technique); Teaching Methods; Contracts; Legal Education (Professions); Drafting; Problem Based Learning; Models; Universities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Aktives Lernen; Case method; Fallmethode; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Vertrag; Juristischer Beruf; Draft; Entwurf; Problem-based learning; Problemorientiertes Lernen; Analogiemodell; University; Universität
Abstract	Business professors in the twenty-first century have been engaging in another form of problem-based pedagogy to unite business school and business practice. This teaching methodology, called "active learning," has become the new case method in college courses. Like the case-based approach, active learning bridges the gap between theory and practice by developing skills along with a deeper understanding of the subject matter. This article contributes to the growing active learning literature in legal studies education by proposing contract exercises to develop both business skills and legal knowledge. The exercises utilize common contract clauses along with alternative factual backgrounds that require students to assess their enforceability in different contexts. They provide a technique of teaching theory through context. The first section of this article examines the importance and value of active learning exercises in legal studies education. The contract exercises, in conjunction with the corresponding law, are explained in section II. Two examples are provided involving the legality and drafting of covenants not to compete and liquidated damages or penalty clauses. Section III delineates the fundamentals of drafting and provides a framework of the reasonable person theory to instruct students in the drafting of contracts that are balanced and enforceable. Supplemental teaching materials on the contract clauses and drafting are available in the Appendices. The article concludes that legal studies education can serve to broaden business school education by engaging students in problem-based contract exercises that converge law, theory, and practice. (Contains 133 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10