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The Law Professors’ Handbook
Contract law in the age of AI and digital transformation
Students now have an AI in every lecture hall. The rules of offer and acceptance have not changed, but how students learn, how they are tempted, and what they will need as lawyers have. This handbook is a set of complete example lectures: the doctrine, taught properly, with the new skills built into the same ninety minutes.
Each lecture is about six pages and includes the doctrine to teach, an opening problem, a workshop in which students test an AI’s analysis against the sources, the questions to ask a student who used AI, a critical-thinking challenge, assessment ideas that an AI cannot simply answer, a student handout and a table of every authority to verify before you teach it.
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Lecture 1: Forming a contract: offer, acceptance and the machine
FreeThe classic rules of offer and acceptance, taught through a problem every student has met: an online shop that lists a laptop at the wrong price and confirms the order automatically. It ends with a workshop in which students test an AI’s analysis against the rules.
About 90 minutes of teaching.
Lecture 2: Terms, notice and the click: what a user agrees to
FreeHow the terms of a contract become binding, from the signature rule to the click-wrap, and what changes when nobody reads, when the terms change by notice, and when an AI agent clicks ‘I agree’ for the user.
About 90 minutes of teaching.
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Lectures 1 and 2 as one printable file, free, for your own teaching.
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The full contract-law volume
All eight lectures with workshops, teacher’s keys, handouts and marking guides, as a PDF and a Word file you can adapt. Launch price for the first buyers.
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Digital product, delivered straight after payment and by email. See the Terms of Service for the licence. Every lecture lists its authorities in a table for you to verify before you teach them; the volume has not yet been reviewed by an independent academic.
The full volume: Lectures 3 to 8
The complete contract-law volume is a paid toolkit, delivered as a PDF and a Word file straight after payment. These six lectures are in it; Lectures 1 and 2 are free above.
Lecture 3: Consideration, intention and certainty: when a promise binds
Why some promises are enforceable, conditional promises, and what a ‘smart contract’ does and does not change.
Lecture 4: Mistake, misrepresentation and the confident machine
Mistake in online pricing and automated trading, statements of fact, and how an AI’s confident tone misleads.
Lecture 5: Interpretation: words, context and AI-drafted clauses
How courts read contracts, and how to test a clause an AI wrote.
Lecture 6: Breach and remedies in an automated world
Damages, termination, self-executing performance, and the limits of automation.
Lecture 7: Drafting and reviewing with AI: a verification workshop
A full class built on the bring-your-own-AI method: planted errors, prompts, and a review protocol.
Lecture 8: Assessing contract law when everyone has an AI
Exam and coursework designs that test understanding, with marking guides.
Written for a common-law course, with adaptation notes for civil-law teachers. It is teaching material, not legal advice, and it asks you to verify every authority before you use it. It is not accredited by any university, court or professional body.
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