The textbook builds on its well-known strengths:

• Comprehensive coverage of all of the topics that figure prominently in most contracts courses.
• Intuitive, insightful approach for first-year law students.
• Clear explanations of the rules, illustrated with noteworthy examples.
• Incorporation of many recent cases into examples.
• Clear prose and incisive analysis.
• Reflection of the expertise of the author, who has also written a successful practitioner treatise.
• Suitability for use alongside any casebook.

The Fourth Edition keeps pace with developments in the field, providing:

* Detailed comparisons of the contract rules of 2003, revised Article 2 (2003), with previous Article 2.
* Citations to revised Articles 1 and 9.
* Citations to dozens of new cases, including those applying CISG (Vienna Sales Convention) and reference to current decisions in such areas as employment agreements, enforceability of arbitration clauses, anti-nuptial contracts, liquidated damages, pre-contractual liability, and electronic contracting.
* Citations to new law journal articles and updated citations to other secondary sources.