Contract law

The Brussels I Regulation has undergone a lengthy review process, resulting in Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (recast).

The emergence of a pan-European contract law is one of the most significant legal developments in Europe today.

This book brings together a series of contributions by leading scholars and practitioners to examine the main features of smart contracts, as well as the response of key stakeholders in technology, business, government and the law.

The ideal companion to developing the essential skills needed to undertake the core module of contract law as part of undergraduate study of law or a qualifying GDL/CPE conversion course.

This is the third edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on contract in the IusCommune series, developed to be used throughout Europe and beyond by anyone who teaches, learns or practises law with a comparative or European perspective.

Contracts for Infrastructure Projects: An International Guide provides a guide to the law relating to construction contracts for infrastructure projects; it is intended for the use of engineers and other professionals who are involved in the negotiation and administration of construction contracts, to enable them to understand the risks involved, and how to minimise them.

Significantly streamlined and updated, this second edition provides a clear introduction to all topics in the contract law curriculum.

A pioneering work capturing the recent rise of moral damages in modern European contract law.

This timely new work provides a thorough overview, analysis, and discussion of standard terms control for banking and financial contracts in Europe.

This book analyses the contractual mechanisms requiring parties to exhaust a selected amicable dispute resolution procedure before proceedings in court or arbitration are initiated.

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

Conventional thinking teaches that the absence of liability - in particular contractual invalidity - is itself the reason for the restitution of transfers in the South African law of unjustified enrichment.

This book introduces the reader to a number of ideas and issues that underlie the English law of contract-an area of law that is often regarded as forbiddingly dry and technical but which is here made easy to understand and full of interest.

Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills is a brand new title which will help you develop and create greater flexibility in your drafting skills.

What type of right is a property right?

A comparative exploration of whether unexpected circumstances can ''open up'' contracts.

This is the first comprehensive review of the extent of remedies and impact of contractual agreements on restitution claims for void, unenforceable, and discharged contracts.

This user friendly guide introduces, explains, and demystifies the NEC4 contract on a practical, work-based level.

The book verifies the impact of national law and transnational rules on international contracts, particularly those with an arbitration clause.

Laws are imposed on facts.

With more than 14,000 business schools worldwide, what is included in their curricula matters for how the economy and the corporate system are managed.

The law of torts recognises many defences to liability.

As the government increasingly uses commercial augmentation to perform many of its most basic functions, it is critically important that all employees understand the rules, expectations and boundaries that define the government-contractor relationship.

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC).

FIDIC contracts are the most widely used contracts for international construction around the world and are used in many different jurisdictions, both common law and civil law.

After an extended period in which the European Community has merely nibbled at the edges of national contract law, the bite of a 'European contract law' has lately become more pronounced.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

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.

Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law.

This book offers an accessible introduction to American contract law, useful to both first-year law students and advanced contract scholars.

Construction Adjudication and Payments Handbook provides a user-friendly and practical guide to adjudication and payments under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and subsequent legislation.

This volume brings together expert contributors across different fields of private law to comment on key decisions by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC).

Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in the social science and humanities.

A new analysis of the importance of promise to contract law, from theoretical, historical and comparative contemporary perspectives.

When all parties involved in the construction process fully understand their roles and are able to anticipate potential points of conflict, disputes and delays will be minimised.

Examines the standard commercial agency agreement where an agent is self-employed and paid a commission on sales he or she generates for the principal as it is those agents that fall within the Regulations.

The purpose of this book is to help employers and their advisers (especially their Quantity Surveyors) in drawing up all the contracts required on a normal UK building project.

Take the mumbo jumbo out of contract law and ace your contracts course Contract law deals with the promises and agreements that law will enforce.

The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations.

This fourth edition of the leading authority on international sale of goods law provides clear, comprehensive and detailed analysis of the subject.

The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh (2013) is one of many cases to invoke critical scrutiny and moral outrage regarding the conditions under which consumer goods sold on our markets are produced elsewhere.

This book is an in-depth study of air and ocean goods-in-transit claims.

Chinese Insurance Contracts: Law and Practice is the first systematic text written in English on the law of insurance in China.

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

Though indeterminacy in legal texts is pervasive, there is a widespread misunderstanding about what indeterminacy is, particularly as it pertains to law.

NEW in paperbackFrom the Reviews of the hardback edition:This is a fascinating and thought-provoking collection of eight essays.

As usage of the NEC (formerly the New Engineering Contract) family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment.

This book is the third in a series of essay collections on defences in private law.

'Restitution for wrongs', or 'restitutionary damages', is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to give up to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim.