This is a great hornbook, and as you probably know the seminal contracts treatise. That being said, this is an old book. The edition is from 1982, and Arthur Corbin died in 1967. The fundamentals of this book are strong but I worry that, for newer law students, this book is going to be a little inaccessible. On top of that, it won't have many of the modern developments in contract law. It is still a great book for students and practitioners both, but if you are a first year law student I think that you would be better off getting one of the newer contract treatises, or even the examples and explanations book on contracts.