As a student of Contracts, this casebook is useful for learning the subject area. It provides several cases to adequately illustrate the areas of contract law & major concepts. Although it can be somewhat dry, the historical overviews provided by the editors can be helpful to the average law student.

This book seeks to compare the history of legal evolution in England, France, and Germany. Dawson is particularly interested in the presence (or absence) of 'case-law', a body of law springing from actual judicial decisions. The good news about this book is that it covers all the details. If you're curious about how legal institutions have operated in times past, if it interests you, for example, that the venerable doctrine of precedent in English law is a nineteenth-century creation, or that German courts once referred hard cases to law faculties, this book is for you. The bad news about this book is that it covers all the details. The book is several hundred pages long, and Dawson's exhaustive (and exhausting) discussions of such things as the mechanics of case reporting are not for the mildly interested or the easily drowsy. Still, anyone who is curious about legal history could do worse than to read this book.