Emanuel Law Outlines: Contracts

I have bought many many supplements, but these Emanuel Outlines (and this one in particular) are the best. By the best I don't mean give you the best in-depth understanding of the nuances of the law and how we got to it, but certainly a comprehensive overview of everything you could be tested on.

Using this in conjunction with your casebook will help get you adequately prepared for class and for your exam.

I give this book as strong a recommendation as possible.

During my first 6 weeks of Contracts, I believed that my professor was speaking a different language. He had recommended the hornbook of our textbook to us. I have no idea why I thought a hornbook written by the same people who wrote our textbook would be helpful, but I tried to understand Contracts by reading it. It didn't help. This book did. It simplified everything for me and with it, my class notes and my professor's lecture were deciphered. I love this book and I wouldn't part with it for the world.

One of my classmates bought this book as well as the "Examples and Explanations" book on Contracts. She thought this book was much better.

I really like this book. It's short, to-the-point, and is a great help in studying contracts for the bar.

P.S. At law school there's too much of this kind of unhealthy attitude: "The Crunch Time is almost too basic to be helpful, or perhaps it is intended for students who are absolutely clueless."

The explanations are not going to cut it with the professor when you get called on. But if you are heading for the final and you didn't outline like you were suppose to, and you didn't go over your notes each day and go back to office hours to fill in the missing parts, and you... Then the book is exactly what it says it is. An emergency book for Crunchtime - hence, I suspect, it's title. All of this is missing the real importance of the book. The very useful diagrams. I really feel that if you just memorize the diagrams and some of the important cases from your textbook you can successful avoid flunking the class. No. A serious heavy hitting elitebar bound law student really screwed up to use this for the final. But that s not the point. You had a problem semester and this is something to hang your hat on to avoid a D.

During my first year of lawschool, I found many Emanuel guidelines extremely helpful as supplements to readings for class. Crunch Time, Contracts, however, was not as helpful as I anticipated. For the student who goes to class and does the reading, I think it would be a more efficient use of time to purchase the full Emanuel on Contracts, even if it is 5 days before the exam. The Crunch Time is almost too basic to be helpful, or perhaps it is intended for students who are absolutely clueless. Questions at the end of Crunch Time are very helpful, however, in stimulating thought on multiple issues. I recommend not doing these exercises the night before the exam, as I did. I got freaked out. Emanuel's capsule summaries are wonderfully concise, clear, humorous, and helpful. Crunch time summarizes these already summarized summaries, and something gets lost in the translation. Happy studying!