Contract law

This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gaps caused by AI systems vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for interconnected AI systems (crowds).

The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginally different factual circumstances presented to them for determination.

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based.

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

The Law Commission (of England and Wales) and the Scottish Law Commission were both established in 1965 to promote the reform of the laws of their respective jurisdictions.

The Law Commission (of England and Wales) and the Scottish Law Commission were both established in 1965 to promote the reform of the laws of their respective jurisdictions.

How tort, contract, and restitution law can be reformed to better serve the social goodLawyers, judges, and scholars have long debated whether incentives in tort, contract, and restitution law effectively promote the welfare of society.

Why the increasing use of boilerplate is eroding our rightsBoilerplate-the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "e;I agree"e; online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets-pervades all aspects of our modern lives.

The updated second edition of the practical guide to international construction contract law The revised second edition of International Construction Contract Law is a comprehensive book that offers an understanding of the legal and managerial aspects of large international construction projects.

The updated second edition of the practical guide to international construction contract law The revised second edition of International Construction Contract Law is a comprehensive book that offers an understanding of the legal and managerial aspects of large international construction projects.

This book focuses on an emerging problem in English contract law: what should be done when a party has been unjustly enriched as the result of a breach of contract but there is no measurable loss suffered by said party?

How can a promise be a lie?

The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC

A comprehensive introduction to contract theory, emphasizing common themes and methodologies as well as applications in key areas.

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering.

What is a contract in Islam?

This collection is the second volume of a two-part study exploring the role of policy and politics in shaping private law.

This book explores how the concept of fairness is used in different legal fields to ensure that the laws we live under are just and reasonable.

Over the past few decades, significant changes have occurred across capital markets.

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts?

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant additional materials and changes since its original publication immediately after the initial release of the NEC4 contracts.

Written by a leading expert in the field, The Oxford Introductions to U.

Foundational Principles of Contract Law not only sets out the principles and rules of contract law, it places more emphasis on what the principles and rules of contract law should be, based on policy, morality, and experience.

Contracts for the Sale of Goods delivers a detailed analysis and in-depth comparison of the substantive law for the sale of goods in domestic and international transactions.

This book presents three theories of contract interpretation, which allow courts to recognize different sets of interpretive elements.

In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law.

When you visit a website, check your email, or download music, you enter into a contract that you probably don't know exists.

If a dispute between commercial parties reaches the stage of arbitration, the cause is usually ambiguous contract terms.

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

When you visit a website, check your email, or download music, you enter into a contract that you probably don't know exists.

Most people fight over something or other and language is usually at the very center of the conflict.

Questions of agency regularly arise in the work of commercial practitioners.

Questions of agency regularly arise in the work of commercial practitioners.

This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law.

This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law.

The second edition of Global Sales and Contract Law continues to provide comparative analysis of domestic laws of sale and contract in over sixty countries, delivering a global view of national and international sales law.

The second edition of Global Sales and Contract Law continues to provide comparative analysis of domestic laws of sale and contract in over sixty countries, delivering a global view of national and international sales law.

Following the success of the first edition, this is the fully updated second edition of A Restatement of the English Law of Contract.

Following the success of the first edition, this is the fully updated second edition of A Restatement of the English Law of Contract.

The relevance of contracting and self-regulation in consumer markets has increased rapidly in recent years, in particular in the platform economy.

The relevance of contracting and self-regulation in consumer markets has increased rapidly in recent years, in particular in the platform economy.

This is the second edition of the leading authority on the law of proprietary estoppel, which has been cited by courts across the common law world.

This is the second edition of the leading authority on the law of proprietary estoppel, which has been cited by courts across the common law world.

Providing a comprehensive and detailed treatment of termination as a remedy for breach of contract, this book gives a current account of the law and explains this complex area in a practical context.

Providing a comprehensive and detailed treatment of termination as a remedy for breach of contract, this book gives a current account of the law and explains this complex area in a practical context.

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes of selected Asian jurisdictions, including the major centres of commerce where limited critical commentaries have been published in the English language.

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes of selected Asian jurisdictions, including the major centres of commerce where limited critical commentaries have been published in the English language.

The fourth edition of this established and highly-regarded work is the most systematic study available of the law of sale of goods with reference to UK and Commonwealth authorities and relevant UK and EU legislation.