Contract law

With the rapid development of China's insurance industry and the opening of the Chinese insurance market to the world, Chinese insurance law and regulation has become an increasingly relevant topic for insurance practitioners and academics.

Promises of indemnity are found in many kinds of commercial contracts, not just contracts of insurance.

"e;Efficient breach"e; is one of the most discussed topics in the literature of law and economics.

In its case law, the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that national courts are bound to give effect to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which sets out the right to private and family life, when they rule on controversies between private individuals.

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.

How can drafters of English law contracts use language to insulate their contracts from the risk of an embarrassing and expensive dispute?

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

A comparative examination of core words used by courts, legislators, and academic commentators in describing the nature of obligations law.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the law of sale of goods with reference to UK and Commonwealth authorities and relevant UK and EU legislation.

China is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the end of the Japanese Occupation (1840-1945) when innumerable cultural objects were lost overseas.

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime and the practice of toxicity testing.

This fully revised and updated edition of Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers includes 300 questions and incorporates 42 new judicial decisions, the JCT 2016 updates and the RIBA Building Contracts and Professional Services Contracts 2018 updates.

This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event.

Rechtlich verbindlich vereinbarte Kooperationen werden regelmässig als einfache Gesellschaft quali-fiziert.

This book is a collection of articles based on Understanding Unjust Enrichment,a symposium held at the University of Western Ontario in January 2003.

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.

Rob White's pioneering work in the establishment and growth of green criminology has been part of a paradigm shift for the field of criminology as it has moved to include crimes committed against the environment.

This concise and accessible guide to reinsurance law is an easy-to-read specialist reference focusing solely on reinsurance.

Banking Law and Financial Regulation in the UK and EU seeks to blend orthodox topics covered within the banking and financial law syllabus, such as sources of banking and financial law, financial markets, financial and banking institutions, financial transactions, and banking and financial insolvency, with a careful analysis of emerging issues and more contemporary topics.

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

It has many times been said that contracts involve assumptions of obligation or liability, but what that means, and what it is that is assumed, have not often been discussed.

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.

This Volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation focuses on transparency as the guiding principle of modern insurance law.

The Joint Contracts Tribunal Standard Form of Building Contract, JCT 98, is now a well established and widely used form.

Digital Technologies and the Law of Obligations critically examines the emergence of new digital technologies and the challenges they pose to the traditional law of obligations, and discusses the extent to which existing contract and tort law rules and doctrines are equipped to meet these new challenges.

This book explores the distinction between private and public aspects in competition law and focuses on how the concept of competition is incorporated into the legal framework.

This volume outlines European perspectives on the liability which may follow a break-off of precontractual negotiations.

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

The 2005 Avant-projet de r forme du droit des obligations et de la prescription, also dubbed the Avant-projet Catala, suggests the most far-reaching reform of the French Civil code since it came into force in 1804.

Despite abundant literature on transaction costs, there is little to no in-depth analysis regarding what the transaction is or how it works.

The quantification of contractual money awards is a topic of both significant theoretical interest and immense practical importance.

This Volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation explores the key trends in InsurTech and the potential legal and regulatory issues that accompany them.

Based on parts of the leading work McKnight, Paterson and Zakrzewski on the Law of International Finance, 2e, this new book is an accessible introduction to loan agreements in English law and practice.

This book presents the general principles of contract law that apply in the countries of the University of the South Pacific ('USP') region - Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

The fourth edition of Government Contract Law is a comprehensive, step by step guide through all aspects of federal government contracting and incorporates numerous significant changes in procurement since the Third Edition was published.

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Any project which involves an EPC contract is also likely to involve a number of other complicated contracts.

Powell-Smith and Furmston s Building Contract Casebook The interaction between general principles and the provisions of the standard building and construction contracts is a central feature of construction law.

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

The validity of a contract can be undermined by factors affecting contractual consent.

An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress.

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).

This book is the first to examine intermediaries in a holistic and systematic manner.

Die Neuauflage des Praktiker-Kommentars ist im Sinne des Begründers weitergeführt und trotzdem vollständig überarbeitet worden.

The 15th edition of Ewan McKendrick KC's bestselling textbook is the go-to resource for all students of contract law.

Explains how intangible assets such as contractual debts or equitable entitlements may be assigned under English law.

Das Buch stellt die zentralen, im Besonderen Teil des Schuldrechts geregelten Vertragstypen Kauf, Tausch, Schenkung, Werkvertrag, Reisevertrag, Miete, Pacht, Leihe, Darlehen und Bürgschaft dar; hinzu kommt das Leasing als wichtiger ungeregelter Vertragstyp.