202S sec. 001 - Contracts for LLMs (Summer 2026)
Instructor: Abbye J Atkinson (view instructor's profile)
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
MTuWThF 10:10 AM - 12:45 PM
Location: Law 140
From June 02, 2026
To June 23, 2026
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Enroll Limit: 35
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This survey course explores the basic principles of U.S. common law that govern contracts, including issues of formation, breach, enforcement, and remedies. Students will also study the related doctrinal principles codified in the Uniform Commercial Code, a model for the law shaping sales and other commercial transactions, and the Restatement Second of Contracts. Textbook: Barnett & Oman, Contracts: Cases and Doctrine (8th Ed.)
Abbye Atkinson is a Professor of Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Center for Law and Economic Justice. and her research focuses on the law of debtors and creditors as it affects marginalized communities. Her work has been published in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Arizona Law Review, Michigan Journal of Race & Law, the N.Y.U. Law Review Online, and the Texas Law Review Online. She has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and she is the inaugural recipient of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award.
Before joining Berkeley Law, Atkinson was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School. Previously she worked as an associate attorney in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn, and she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ronald M. Gould of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
At Berkeley, Atkinson teaches Contracts, Poverty Law, Debt, Discrimination, and Inequality, and the Consumer Law and Economic Justice workshop.
Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home Final Exam
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Bar Courses
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Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, Eighth Edition
Randy E. Barnett & Nathan B. Oman
Edition: Eighth
Publisher: Aspen
ISBN: 9798892074117
e-Book Available: Yes
Price: To Be Determined