Time budget
- Floor
- Recovery only. If any prior-class doctrine is incomplete, finish it here. ~40–60 min depending on what's outstanding.
- Target
- Recovery + practice problems on recent material. No cold-calls; worked-example mode. ~75 min.
- Ceiling
- Target + preview of the next module's reading + one open-ended discussion question. Full ~110 min.
By the end of this class, you can
- Recall the Fall framework by naming the elements of formation (offer, acceptance, consideration), the principal defenses, and the relationship between them.
- Apply one practice problem from each Fall module without consulting notes and identify which step caused the confusion.
- Preview Module V: identify, from a one-paragraph contract excerpt, the kind of dispute that interpretation doctrine resolves.
The first Spring class is intentionally a soft landing. Students are returning from winter break and the year is long; pushing first-look doctrine here costs more than it earns. This class trades doctrinal progress for stability, and the calendar absorbs the trade by accelerating slightly through Class 28.
If the Fall ran on schedule, the period works as Module IV–V transition: practice problems for ten minutes, a one-paragraph contract excerpt to interpret as a Module V preview, and a clean reading-assignment hand-off for the next class. If the Fall ran behind, this period is the make-up period — any Module IV doctrine that got compressed in December gets finished here, with practice problems as the cooldown.
Either way, this is the only Spring class where running out of time costs nothing. Use it.
Slide deck
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Notes
Flex slot. If on schedule: walk-through of practice problems from Fall material and a preview of Module V; ends with the reading assignment for Class 28. If behind from Fall: use the period to close out whatever Module IV doctrine got compressed in December. No cold calls.