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Contract Design is a free textbook for a three credit, four credit, and six credit course taught at leading Law Schools and universities. Model Syllabi and other teaching materials are available in the Teaching Manual section of this website. All faculty teaching Contract Design are welcome to access the Teaching Manual section of this website by registering as faculty on the site. To register, write to me at astremitzer@ethz.ch.

The textbook is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Under the terms of this license, you are free to copy and redistribute the textbook in part or whole in any format provided that (1) you do so only for non-commercial purposes, and (2) you comply with the attribution principles of the license (credit the authors, and link to the license). Note please that this license does not permit you to make modifications to the textbook or to create derivative works. That said, there are a wide variety of derivatives that we would gladly permit. If you want to make modifications to the textbook, please contact us.

Contract Design has been or is being used in whole or part at the following institutions:

  1. ETH Zurich
  2. Georgetown Law School
  3. Harvard Law School
  4. UCLA Law School
  5. University of St. Gallen
  6. University of Zurich
  7. Yale Economics Department
  8. Yale Law School
  9. Yale/ Paris Assas/ ESSEC Summer School
  10. Yale SOM