"Art for a Better Life:" A New Image of American Legal Education

Abstract

Picture a contracts class that starts not with Hurley v. Eddingfieti or Hawkins v. McGei but with a deeper look at the ideas underpinning the notion of contract beyond its American incarnation. Visualize, then, liberating contract law from the pages of an American textbook and exploring its origins and its essence across time and space. Push the Uniform Commercial Code aside for a moment and visit contract in ancient Rome, understand how it operated in medieval Japan, hear its haunting legacy in the voices of coalminers whose songs of struggle detail the failure of contract to protect workers, and revisit contract today to probe the issues of consent and free will that have shaped recent debates over trafficking in human beings. Meet the idea of contract as a

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