A casebook on contract

✍ Scribed by A S Burrows

• Publisher: Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 959
• Edition: 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the seventh, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases

"'...Provides everything you want in a case book: a stimulating, thought-provoking and up to date account of contract law. It combines both fantastic academic commentary and superbly selected materials making it simply one of the best contract law casebooks.' Student Law Journal This is the seventh, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases. Designed to be used either on its own or to supplement a contract law textbook, this book covers the undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented and carefully structured chapters. The author provides an expert introduction to each topic and his succinct notes and questions seek to guide students to a proper understanding of the cases. The relevant statutes are also set out along with a principled analysis of them. In addition to cross-references to further discussion in the leading textbooks, an innovative feature is the summary of leading academic articles in each chapter. The book is designed not to overwhelm students by its length but covers all aspects of the law of contract most commonly found in the undergraduate curriculum"--

✦ Table of Contents

Offer and acceptance --
Certainty and intention to create legal relations --
Consideration and promissory estoppel --
Identifying the terms --
Interpreting the terms --
Statutory control of exemption clauses and unfair terms --
Termination --
Damages --
Direct enforcement --
Privity of contract and third party rights --
Misrepresentation --
Mistake --
Frustration --
Duress --
Undue influence and exploitation of weakness.