Offers students with a logical introduction to contract law. Exploring various developments and case decisions in the field of contract law, this title combines an examination of authorities and commentaries with a modern contextual approach.
This contracts casebook includes introductions that quickly orient students within unfamiliar territories. Cases present both the doctrine applied and, in some instances, the shortcomings of that doctrine. the authors express...
Modern Law of Contracts
'Casebook on Contract Law' provides students with a comprehensive selection of the cases most likely to be encountered on contract law courses and is specifically designed to meet their needs.
Scholars have produced a wide variety of theoretical work on contract law. This is the first book to compile it, to present it coherently, to evaluate it, and to supply numerous references to additional sources.
Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues that contract is best explained as a transfer of rights governed by a conception of justice.
'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.
Fully updated and amended English second edition, including references to the new Swiss Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) which will take effect on January 1, 2011, this work brings together the law and practice of arbitration in Switzerland ...
Substantially revised and updated, this edition reexamines, in the light of renewed support for the ideology of freedom of contract, many of the arguments formerly levelled against this concept.
M. Howe (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), i. 276. * Letter from Holmes to Pollock, 17 June 1880, in ibid. i. 14, 15. * Holmes, supra n. 46, pp. 293-4. *7 Ames, “Two Theories of Consideration', Harvard Law Review, 12 (1899), 515 at 515–17; ...
Essays addressing a variety of issues in the theory and practice of contract law.