Foundation Press has published Contracts Stories, edited by Douglas G. Baird (Chicago):

In this appealing Stories offering, the editors are joined by other leading contracts scholars in taking the major cases in contract law — from Britton v. Turner to Red Owl to Pro-CD to Baby M — and putting them in their historical and cultural context. This volume brings together a broad array of contracts scholars. Each of the eleven short and readily accessible chapters provides newly uncovered facts about and insights into the cases that lie at the core of the first-year contracts class. Long-standing puzzles are answered (such as the identity of Louise Hamer and why the nephew transferred his claim to her after his uncle died in Hamer v. Sidway and why a bridge to nowhere was built in Luten Bridge). These answers in turn are linked to the larger political and social forces at work, and the way these forces have shaped the evolution of contract law.

For further information about Contracts Stories, see:

• Table of Contents
• Features and Benefits
• Professors can request a complimentary copy here.

Other titles in the Law Stories Series (for which I serve as Series Editor) are:

• Administrative Law Stories (2006), edited by Peter L. Strauss (Columbia)
• Business Tax Stories (2005), edited by Steven A. Bank (UCLA) & Kirk J. Stark (UCLA) 
• Civil Procedure Stories (2004), edited by Kevin M. Clermont (Cornell)
• Constitutional Law Stories (2004), edited by Michael C. Dorf (Columbia)
• Criminal Procedure Stories (2006), edited by Carol S. Steiker (Harvard)
• Employment Discrimination Stories (2006), edited by Joel William Friedman (Tulane)
• Environmental Law Stories (2005), edited by Richard J. Lazarus (Georgetown) & Oliver A. Houck (Tulane)
• Evidence Stories (2006), edited by Richard O. Lempert (Michigan)
• Immigration Stories (2005), edited by David A. Martin (Virginia) & Peter H. Schuck (Yale)
• Intellectual Property Stories (2005), edited by Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia) & Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss (NYU)
• Labor Law Stories (2005), edited by Laura J. Cooper (Minnesota) & Catherine L. Fisk (Duke)
• Legal Ethics Stories (2005), edited by Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford) & David Luban (Georgetown)
• Property Stories (2004), edited by Gerald Korngold (Case Western) & Andrew P. Morriss (Case Western)
• Tax Stories (2003), edited by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)
• Torts Stories (2003), edited by Robert L. Rabin (Stanford) & Stephen D. Sugarman (UC-Berkeley)