A Restatement of the English Law of Contract

Author: Andrew (hon) Burrows FBA
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191072052
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
A Restatement of the English Law of Contract is the second Restatement of English law undertaken by Andrew Burrows following on the success of A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP, 2012). Designed to enhance the accessibility of the common law the Restatement comprises a number of clear succinct rules, fully explained by a supporting commentary, which set out the general law of contract in England and Wales. Written by one of the leading authorities in this area, in collaboration with an advisory group of senior judges, academics, and legal practitioners, the Restatement offers a novel and powerfully persuasive statement of the law in this central area of English law. All lawyers dealing with the English law of contract, whether as practitioners, judges, academics, or law students, cannot but benefit from this Restatement. The English law of contract is one of the most respected systems of contract law in the world and by the device of a 'choice of law' clause is often chosen by foreign commercial parties as the applicable law to govern their contract. One of the aims of the Restatement is for the reader, including those from civil law jurisdictions, to see quickly and easily how the different elements of the English law of contract fit together.

A Restatement of the English Law of Contract

Author: Andrew Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198755554
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 309

An International Restatement of Contract Law: The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts

Author: Michael Joachim Bonell
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 900419469X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 706

Book Description
The Unidroit Principles of International Contracts, first published in 1994, have met with extraordinary success in the legal and business community worldwide. Prepared by a group of eminent experts from all major legal systems of the world, they provide a comprehensive set of rules for international commercial contracts. This new edition of An International Restatement of Contract Law is the first comprehensive introduction to the Unidroit Principles 2004. In addition, it provides an extensive survey and analysis of the actual use of the Unidroit Principles in practice with special emphasis on the different ways in which they have been interpreted and applied by the courts and arbitral tribunals in the hundred or so cases reported worldwide. The book also contains the full text of the Preamble and the 180 articles of the Unidroit Principles 2004 in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Russian as well as the 1994 edition in Spanish.

Vitiation of Contracts

Author: Gareth Spark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139620452
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
Vitiation of Contracts proposes a new theory to explain the rationale of general vitiating factors in English contract law. It provides a clear link to voluntariness as the foundation of contractual liability and compares the English position, in light of this theory, with the Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC), the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL), the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) and the US Restatement (Second) of Contracts.

A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment

Author: Andrew S. Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199669899
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This Restatement presents a distillation of the current state of the common law of unjust enrichment into a coherent set of doctrines. Written by an authority in the area, assisted by senior judges, academics, and practitioners, the Restatement offers a persuasive statement of the law in this newly recognized and uncertain branch of the common law.

Contract Law Minimalism

Author: Jonathan Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110747020X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Commercial contract law is in every sense optional given the choice between legal systems and law and arbitration. Its 'doctrines' are in fact virtually all default rules. Contract Law Minimalism advances the thesis that commercial parties prefer a minimalist law that sets out to enforce what they have decided - but does nothing else. The limited capacity of the legal process is the key to this 'minimalist' stance. This book considers evidence that such minimalism is indeed what commercial parties choose to govern their transactions. It critically engages with alternative schools of thought, that call for active regulation of contracts to promote either economic efficiency or the trust and co-operation necessary for 'relational contracting'. The book also necessarily argues against the view that private law should be understood non-instrumentally (whether through promissory morality, corrective justice, taxonomic rationality, or otherwise). It sketches a restatement of English contract law in line with the thesis.

Contract Formation

Author: Michael Furmston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199284245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 477

Book Description
Providing a practical analysis of the legal principles which govern the formation of contracts in English law (with additional authorities from the Commonwealth), this work on contract formation offers those involved in litigation and in drafting contracts a guide to the application of those principles in practice.

Principles of the English Law of Obligations

Author: Andrew Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063274
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 774

Book Description
Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law. Drawing together updated chapters from the third edition of English Private Law, the subjects covered include contract, tort and equitable wrongs, unjust enrichment, and remedies. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, the chapters give a clear, simple, and accurate overview of the guiding principles and rules of the English law of obligations, including contract and tort, which are compulsory subjects for law degrees and on professional courses. Whether looking for an accessible, conceptual introduction to the area or a handy revision reference, students will find this book invaluable.

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law

Author: Andrew S. Gold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190919663
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640

Book Description
"This book discusses developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad domain of private law. This field, which embraces the traditional common law subjects-property, contracts, and torts-as well as adjacent, more statutory areas, such as intellectual property and commercial law, also includes important subjects that have been neglected in the United States but are beginning to make a comeback. The book particularly focuses on the New Private Law, an approach that aims to bring a new outlook to the study of private law by moving beyond reductively instrumentalist policy evaluation and narrow, rule-by-rule, doctrine-by-doctrine analysis, so as to consider and capture how private law's various features fit and work together, as well as the normative underpinnings of these larger structures. This movement is resuscitating the notion of private law itself in United States and has brought an interdisciplinary perspective to the more traditional, doctrinal approach prevalent in Commonwealth countries. The book embraces a broad range of perspectives to private law-including philosophical, economic, historical, and psychological- yet it offers a unifying theme of seriousness about the structure and content of private law."--

Chinese Contract Law

Author: Larry A. DiMatteo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107176328
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Book Description
A unique comparative analysis of Chinese contract law accessible to lawyers from civil, common, and mixed law jurisdictions.