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Understanding Contract Law

Understanding Contract Law
5th Edition
Series:  Understanding Law Series
Practice Area:  Academic Law, Contract Law
ISBN:  9781847031167
Published by:  Sweet & Maxwell
Publication Date:  30 Apr 2007
Subscription Information:  Non-Subscribable Product
Format:  Paperback
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Understanding Contract Law presents a succinct yet intellectually challenging overview of contract law. This fifth edition:
  • Goes beyond traditional “black letter” exposition to provide a real understanding of the subject
  • Offers a unique analysis of contract doctrine - the authors’ terminology of “market-indivualism’ and “consumer-welfarism” has been widely adopted
  • Looks at how the contract rulebook emerged
  • Explains how the rulebook doctrines and particular judicial decisions reflect a range of underlying tensions (relating to the general ideologies of adjudication and the particular ideologies of contract)
  • Examines how the institution of contract is undergoing major changes at the beginning of the twenty-first century
  • Covers all key case law and statutory developments
  • Sets a distinctive manifesto for legal education that is in line with the ACLEC emphasis on “understanding” (rather than passive role learning) as the key to the initial stage of legal education

CONTENTS

Groundwork
  • Understanding contract: first steps
  • The rule-book in historical perspective
  • Contractual disputes
The judges and the rule-book
  • Agreement
  • The conditions of enforceability
  • The concept of risk
  • Remedies
  • The ideologies of contract
The rule-book and the transformation of contract
  • Contract transformed
  • Understanding contract as a social phenomenon
 

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"... an invaluable book for anyone who wants to understand not just what the law is, but also how it came about, how it has evolved and how it will continue to evolve. Customer review, Amazon.co.uk
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