Contract law

An historical analysis of the development and reform of the law of prior obligations as expressed in preexisting duty rule and past consideration rule.

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts?

This book explores the boilerplate, or the fine print of mass-distributed contracts: what it says, who writes it, and who reads it.

To what extent can an animal constitute a 'juridical species'?

Legal Aspects of Public Procurement, Third Edition provides a glimpse into the relationships between the legal, ethical, and professional standards of public procurement, outlining not only the interconnections of federal, state, and local law but also best practice under comprehensive judicial standards.

Serving the needs of both students and experts, this book evaluates the CISG through economic theory and legal doctrine.

Contractual remedies aimed at performance create a well-known rift between common law and civil law traditions, in the one existing in the shadow of damages, whilst in the other regarded as a generally enforceable right following from the contract.

NEC4: Effective Preparation and Management of the Construction Programme explains the critical role of the programme within the NEC4 suite of contracts, providing insight and guidance into NEC4 contract requirements and good practice in the preparation of planning the works and the programme.

This book is both an examination of, and a contribution to, our understanding of the theoretical foundations of the common law of contract.

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

Examining the fulfilment of international obligations by subjects of this law, this book explores the normative and functional links between the sources and rules of international law on the one hand, and the responsibility for violating international law on the other.

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

Assignment is a crucial topic in commercial law, and this new work by Gregory Tolhurst is the most comprehensive work on the assignment of contractual rights ever published.

This study proposes a theory of international arbitration culture, tests this theory against real-world outcomes, and uses it to make predictions about the contract law principles that international arbitrators are likely to favour.

This book explores the complexities of contracts in a real world context through a series of engaging real life stories.

This collection examines one of the fastest growing fields of regulation: data rights.

This book examines claims in negligence arising from illegal conduct of the claimant.

This text serves as an accessible introduction to the law of contract.

Pure economic loss is one of the most-discussed problems in the fields of tort and contract.

Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Arbitration in the Construction Industry provides the first detailed review of multi-party arbitration in the international construction sector.

Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy examines why existing contract teaching pedagogy has remained in place for so long and argues for an overhaul of the way it is taught.

Aimed at those at the sharp end of contract grounds maintenance, this book will provide guidance for anyone unfamiliar with the process of contracting work out.

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework.

This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in light of the impact that statutes have had on its development.

In the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, misconduct and unfair contract terms in financial services contracts triggered a wave of litigation before national courts.

This book is a comparative look at the law of commercial contracts as constructed by the US and UK legal systems.

This book and the accompanying electronic download is a major new edition and allows you access to thousands of skillfully drafted contract clauses across a range of industries and scenarios which you can edit and adapt.

This collection contributes to a fundamentally important set of debates about the nature of private law.

This study proposes a theory of international arbitration culture, tests this theory against real-world outcomes, and uses it to make predictions about the contract law principles that international arbitrators are likely to favour.

In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically that of promise, most broadly the capitalist market order.

This, the only book in print to focus on liquidated damages and penalty clauses, analyses the common law jurisdiction to control stipulated damages clauses, and the distinction between enforceable liquidated damages clauses and unenforceable penalty clauses.

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 seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by describing the formulation, interpretation and enforcement of the rules on consumer contracts in China and the EU, and by mapping key similarities and differences.

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

This book explores the use of tort laws in Bangladesh, outlining critical studies and cases on key concepts such as nuisance, international torts, negligence, and liability.

Now Available in Paperback From its launch in 1991 the New Engineering Contract has rapidly overtaken traditional building and civil engineering contracts to become the UK's leading standard form for major construction projects.

Written with the busy practitioner in mind, this concise and insightful book sets out the principles that guide the courts in interpreting contracts.

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.

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.

This comprehensive and popular textbook aims to bridge the gap between theoretical study and practical application.

Now in its third edition, this authoritative work on the construction of contracts is an invaluable resource for legal practitioners and academics seeking to understand the legal principles involved in contract interpretation as well as the current trends in the neighbouring topics of implied terms and rectification.

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

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

This third edition of the only work to focus on damages under the CISG maintains its purpose as the primary reference source for this topic.

This book discusses the dominant corrective justice and distributive justice approaches to private law and identifies their strengths and weaknesses.

Critically examines moral-promissory, economic and socio-legal perspectives on contract law, arguing that it should be formal and minimalistic by design.

Provides the tools for the user to construct a contract in a logical format and draft the terms in language that both parties can easily understand and put into practice and the accompanying digital download reduces administration time in the office.