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Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, Contract Law takes a unique approach to a complex subject.
Chen-Wishart combines academic rigour with an innovative visual approach, presenting the law with diagrams, flowcharts and tables to provide students with a stimulating account of key principles and an engaging analysis of the complexities of contract law. Thought-provoking analytical features, such as the 'Pause for reflection' and 'Counterpoint' boxes, encourage active and critical engagement with the topics.
Digital formats and resources
The seventh edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
· The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
· The online resources include: animated diagrams; chapters in essence; guidance on answering the questions in the book; bi-annual updates on the latest key developments in contract law; and self-test questions on key topics, with feedback, providing an opportunity for students to test and consolidate their learning.
List of contents
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Introduction
- Part II: Contract Formation
- 2: Agreement
- 3: Enforceability: consideration, promissory estoppel, formalities
- Part III: Privity
- 4: Privity
- Part IV: 'Vitiating' Factors
- 5: Misrepresentation and non-disclosure
- 6: Mistake
- 7: Frustration
- 8: Duress
- 9: Unfairness: undue influence, non-commercial guarantees, unconscionable bargains
- Part V: The Contents of Contracts
- 10: Identifying and interpreting contractual terms
- 11: Direct control over terms
- Part VI: Breach and Remedies for Breach
- 12: Breach of contract and termination
- 13: Damages
- 14: Specific and agreed remedies
- Part VII: Good Faith
- 15: Good faith
About the author
Mindy Chen-Wishart is Dean and Professor of the Law of Contract in the Law Faculty at Oxford University, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and (fractional) Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. Previously she was a senior lecturer at Otago University, New Zealand, and Rhodes Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has held Visiting Professorships in Germany, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She writes in Contract Law, Asian Contract Laws, and Contract Theory, and is one of the editors of Chitty on Contracts.
Summary
Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, Contract Law takes a unique approach to a complex subject. Complementing academic rigour with engaging visual and analytical features, Chen-Wishart provides insightful analysis of the intricacies of the subject.
