ABSTRACT
Many of the themes that were identified in the sister volume on criminal law pedagogy are just as applicable to the law of contract. The reasons why this black letter approach risks being squeezed out are both various and complex. This type of approach towards pedagogy is difficult. There is a grave threat to private law as an academic discipline in the United Kingdom and similar jurisdictions which, whilst significantly different to the threat it has faced in the United States, is no less pernicious. It actually goes to the heart of contract law pedagogy. Within the itself fairly limited class of pedagogical literature about law, almost nothing has been written specifically on the subject of contract law. The decision to teach the subject in the traditional method involves making a pedagogical choice. Looking to the future the bigger task is to reinvigorate contract law teaching as a central part of the law curriculum.
