Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law

This book makes a broad and deep contribution to the longstanding debate as to the extent to which contract and commercial law comprises a series of default rules, where the parties can ''opt out'' and/or fashion their own rules by agreement. Consisting of twelve essays by world-leading scholars, it considers how a range of doctrines across the breadth of private law as applied in the commercial context can be explained and justified. In so doing it offers a uniquely broad and sustained exploration of default rules. It also moves the discussion out of the abstract sphere, by engaging on a practical level with the doctrinal questions at play. This will be of interest to both academics and practitioners in the field of commercial contracts.>

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• Authors: , William Day, Jonathan Morgan, Andrew Robertson
• Assisted by: Barnett Katy (Editor), William Day (Editor), Jonathan Morgan (Editor), Andrew Robertson (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9781509971206
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-7120-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Hart Studies in Private Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, LAW / Commercial / General, LAW / Remedies & Damages, Commercial law, contract law, EU (European Union), Private or civil law: general, Company law, Private / Civil law: general works