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Bio

Professor Chuck Knapp is a graduate of New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law, JD (1960), ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Sydney, Rotary Foundation Scholar (1957), and Denison ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ, B.A. (1956). He came to UC Law SF in 1998 from New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law School, where he had been a faculty member since 1964, and was the Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law.

At UC Law SF, Professor Knapp was named the first holder of the Joseph W. Cotchett Distinguished Professorship. Besides his years of service at N.Y.U., he has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Arizona, Brooklyn Law School, and the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Copenhagen.

His principal teaching interest is the first-year Contracts course. Along with UC Law SF’ Professor H.G. Prince and Professor Nathan Crystal, he is the co-author of a widely used casebook, Problems in Contract Law, published by Aspen and now in its seventh edition. Professor Knapp’s other teaching is usually in the commercial law area; at UC Law SF he also teaches an advanced Contracts course and a course in Secured Transactions.

Born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, Professor Knapp has two daughters, a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law, and five grandchildren, with all of whom he tries to spend at least some time each summer at the family home in the Catskill Mountains, in New York State.

Scholarship

Books

Ìý(Wolters Kluwer 9th ed. 2019) (with Nathan M Crystal & Harry G Prince).

Ìý(Wolters Kluwer 8th ed. 2016) (with Nathan M Crystal & Harry G Prince).

Problems in Contract LawÌý(Aspen Publishers 7th ed. 2012) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).Ìý

Rules of Contract Law, 2012-2013 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2012) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Rules of Contract Law, 2011-2012 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2011) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Rules of Contract Law, 2009-2010 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2009) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Ìý(Aspen Publishers 6th ed. 2007 & Stat. Supps. 2007–2008) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Rules of Contract Law, 2007–2008 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2007) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Rules of Contract Law, 2005–2006 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2005) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Problems in Contract LawÌý(Aspen Law & Business 5th ed. 2003 & Stat. Supps. 2003–2004) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Rules of Contract Law, 2003–2004 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2003) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Rules of Contract Law, 2001–2002 Statutory SupplementÌý(Aspen Publishers 2001) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Ìý(Aspen Law & Business 4th ed. 1999) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Ìý(Aspen Law & Business 1999) (with Nathan M. Crystal & Harry G. Prince).

Ìý(Little, Brown 3d ed. 1993) (with Nathan M. Crystal).

Rules of Contract Law: Selections from the Uniform Commercial Second of Contracts Code, the CISG, and the RestatementÌý(Little, Brown 1993) (with Nathan M. Crystal).

Ìý(Little, Brown 2d ed. 1987) (with Nathan M. Crystal).

Ìý(Little, Brown 1987) (with Nathan M. Crystal).

Ìý(Matthew Bender 1986).

Ìý(Little, Brown 1976).

Journal Articles

Is There a “Duty to Read”?, 66ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý1083 (2015).Ìý

Cases and Controversies: Some Things to Do with Contracts Cases, 88ÌýWash. L. Rev.Ìý1357 (2013).Ìý

Contract Law Walks the Plank:ÌýCarnival Cruise Lines v. Shute, 12ÌýNev. L.J.Ìý553 (2012).Ìý

Blowing the Whistle on Mandatory Arbitration: Unconscionability as a Signaling Device, 46ÌýSan Diego L. Rev.Ìý609 (2009).Ìý

Opting Out or Copping Out? An Argument for Strict Scrutiny of Individual Contracts, 40ÌýLoy. L.A. L. Rev.Ìý95 (2006).Ìý

An Offer You Can’t Revoke, 2004ÌýWis. L. Rev.Ìý309 (2004).Ìý

Taking Contracts Private: The Quiet Revolution in Contract Law, 71ÌýFordham L. Rev.Ìý761 (2002).Ìý

Rescuing Reliance: The Perils of Promissory Estoppel, 49ÌýHastings L.J.Ìý1191 (1998).ÌýÌý

Judgment Call: Theoretical Approaches to Contract Decision-Making, 1988ÌýAnn. Surv. Am. L.Ìý307 (1988).Ìý

Norman Redlich (Dean, New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law), 63ÌýN.Y.U. L. Rev.Ìý5 (1988).Ìý

Reliance in the RevisedÌýRestatement:ÌýThe Proliferation of Promissory Estoppel, 81ÌýColum. L. Rev.Ìý52 (1981).Ìý

Protecting the Buyer of Previously Encumbered Goods: Another Plea for Revision of UCC Section 9-307(I), 15ÌýAriz. L. Rev.Ìý861 (1973).Ìý

Sex Discrimination by Law: A Study in Judicial Perspective, 46ÌýN.Y.U. L. Rev.Ìý675 (1971) (with John D. Johnston, Jr.).Ìý

Enforcing the Contract to Bargain, 44ÌýN.Y.U. L. Rev.Ìý673 (1969).Ìý

Contracts, 1967ÌýAnn. Surv. Am. L.Ìý405 (1967) (with James W. Carroll & James A. Clarkson).Ìý

Contracts, 1966ÌýAnn. Surv. Am. L.Ìý133 (1966).Ìý

Trusts and Succession, 1965ÌýAnn. Surv. Am. L.Ìý467 (1965).Ìý

Trusts and Administration, 1964ÌýAnn. Surv. Am. L.Ìý517 (1964).Ìý

Chapters In Books

Is There a ‘Duty to Read’?, inÌýRevisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay: On the Empirical and the LyricalÌý315 (Jean Braucher ed., Hart 2013).Ìý

Unconscionability in American Contract Law: A Twenty First Century Survey, inÌýCommercial Contract Law: A Transatlantic PerspectiveÌý309 (Larry A. DiMatteo, Qi Zhou, Severine Saintier & Keith Rowley eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2013).Ìý

Contract Law, inÌýFundamentals of American LawÌý201 (Alan B. Morrison ed., Oxford Univ. Press 1996).Ìý

Book Reviews

The Promise of the Future—and Vice Versa: Some Reflections on the Metamorphosis of Contract Law, 82ÌýMich. L. Rev.Ìý932 (1984) (reviewingÌýE. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts (1982)).

Education

• New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law
  J.D., Law

• Denison ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  B.A., Undergraduate Studies

Accomplishments

• Lifetime Achievement Award
  Awarded for Contracts Teaching at the Sixth International Contracts Conference at UNLV Law School. 2010

• Legal Teaching Award
  Awarded by the New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law School Alumni Association. 1995

• Order of the Coif
  Member of the honor society for United States law school graduates. 1970