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JC Smith's The Law of Contract provides a superb overview of all the key areas of contract law making this book ideal for use on all undergraduate courses. A focus on key cases acts a springboard into analysis and critical discussion enabling students to really understand the fundamentals of the subject.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction and fundamental themes
- 2: Objectivity in contract law
- 3: Offer and Acceptance: bilateral contracts
- 4: Offer and Acceptance: unilateral contracts
- 5: Contract as an agreement
- 6: Identity of offeror and offeree
- 7: Consideration and promissory estoppel
- 8: Intention to create legal relations
- 9: Contracts requiring writing
- 10: Third parties
- 11: Identifying the terms of a contract
- 12: Interpretation
- 13: Implication
- 14: Rectification
- 15: Exclusion clauses and unfair terms
- 16: Misrepresentation
- 17: Duress
- 18: Undue influence
- 19: Unconscionable bargains and inequality of bargaining power
- 20: Good faith
- 21: Capacity
- 22: Illegality and restraint of trade
- 23: Common mistake: contracts void for failure of a basic contractual assumption
- 24: Frustration: contracts discharged for failure of a basic contractual assumption
- 25: Conditions, warranties, and innominate terms
- 26: Anticipatory breach of contract
- 27: Compensatory damages
- 28: Agreed remedies
- 29: Remedies beyond compensatory damages
- Glossary
About the author
Paul S. Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at UCL, teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Paul was previously an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Catherine's College, Oxford. His book Accessory Liability (Hart Studies in Private Law: Hart Publishing, 2015) won the Inner Temple Book Prize in 2018, and in 2015 was awarded a Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars. Paul is also a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn and a Member of Essex Court Chambers.
Summary
JC Smith's The Law of Contract provides a superb overview of all the key areas of contract law making this book ideal for use on all undergraduate courses. A focus on key cases acts a springboard into analysis and critical discussion enabling students to really understand the fundamentals of the subject.
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A comprehensive and accessible text which deals with the fundamental key principles.
