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Enriched with problem scenarios and illustrations,
Contract Law offers students a helpful framework to support deep understanding of legal principles, academic analysis, and critical discussion.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Forming Contracts
- 2: Bargaining and agreeing: offer, acceptance, and formation
- 3: Consideration: the requirement of mutuality
- 4: Contracts and informal relations: the intention to create legal relations
- 5: Non-contractual promises: promissory and proprietary estoppel
- Part II: Keeping Contracts
- 6: Assembling the contract: representations, terms, and incorporation
- 7: Interpreting the terms: construction, rectification, and mutual mistake
- 8: Filling the gaps: implied terms
- 9: Flexible terms: uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness
- 10: Fundamental changes: frustration and common mistake
- Part III: Regulating Contracts
- 11: Untrue statements: misrepresentation and unilateral mistake
- 12: The limits of hard bargaining: duress and undue influence
- 13: Controlling contract terms: exclusion clauses, penalties, and consumer protection
- 14: Protecting the public interest: the doctrine of illegality
- Part IV: Enforcing Contracts
- 15: Breach of contract: repudiation and the right to terminate
- 16: Compensatory remedies: damages for breach of contract
- 17: Non-compensatory remedies: specific performance, debt, and restitution
- 18: Privity and third parties: protecting the rights of non-parties
About the author
TT Arvind is Professor of Law and Head of Department at York Law School, University of York. His research focuses on the history and social context of private law and he has a strong interest in developing problem-based and experiential approaches to teaching and learning in law.
Summary
Enriched with problem scenarios and illustrations, Contract Law offers students a helpful framework to support deep understanding of legal principles, academic analysis, and critical discussion.
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A good read, with the perfect level of depth on the subject; I wish I had had this textbook when studying contract!
