Contract Law and the Legislature

Autonomy, Expectations, and the Making of Legal Doctrine
Herausgeber: Arvind, Tt; Steele, Jenny

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in light of the impact that statutes have had on its development. With contributions from leading contract law scholars, it fills a significant gap in existing theoretical and doctrinal analyses of contract law, which rely primarily on cases to put forward accounts of the general principles and structure of contract law. Statutory rules are, typically, seen as being specific instances of legal regulation that carve out exceptions to these general principles for specific reasons of policy. This treatment of these rules has resulted in an incomplete understanding of the nature of contract law and the principles that underpin it. By drawing specifically on contract statutes, the volume produces a more complete picture of modern contract law. A companion to the ground-breaking Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change (Hart Publishing, 2012) this collection will have a significant impact on the study of contract law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9781509926107
• ISBN-10: 1509926100
• Artikelnr.: 58819661

Autorenporträt

TT Arvind and Jenny Steele are members of the School of Law at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Legislation and the Shape of Contract Law TT Arvind and
Jenny Steele PART I REMAKING THE LAW: THE PURPOSES AND EFFECTS OF STATUTES
2. Preservation, Removal and Freezing of the Common Law by Statute Andrew
Burrows 3. History, Context and the Problem of Juristic Method: The
Chancery Amendment Act 1858 and the Law of Contract TT Arvind and Jenny
Steele 4. The Lasting Impact of the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 upon Contract
Law Catharine MacMillan 5. Contract and the Challenge of Consumer
Protection Legislation Jeannie Paterson and Elise Bant 6. A Reputation for
Boldness: Statutory Reform of Contract Law in New Zealand Warren Swain
PART II FAIRNESS, COMMERCIALITY AND THE NATURE(s) OF CONTRACT 7. The
Consequences of Defying the System of Natural Liberty: The Absurdity of the
Misrepresentation Act 1967 David Campbell 8. Two Laws of Contract, or One?
Steve Hedley 9. Compulsion, Choice and Statutory Intervention in Contract:
Implied Terms of Quality in Sale of Goods Jonathan Morgan 10. Contract Law
Reform by Statute in a Common Law System: The Work of the Law Commissions
Hector MacQueen 11. The Reform of French Contract Law: The Struggle for
Coherency Solène Rowan 12. Statutes and the Common Law of Contracts: A
Shared Methodology Juliet P Kostritsky 13. Insurance and Price Regulation
in the Digital Era James Davey PART III CONTRACTS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION
14. Understanding the (Re-)regulation of Private Renting in England: Karl
Polanyi, the Rogue Landlord, the Responsible Tenant and the Decent Home
Helen Carr and Rowan Alcock 15. Regulating Commercial Contracts: What can
we Learn from Part II of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration
Act 1996? Charlotte Ellis 16. Contractual Enforceability and Surrogacy
Arrangements: Mapping the Moral Limits Aisling McMahon 17. Contract Law and
Economic Reform in China Ding Chen 18. Relational Regulation - The Role of
Contract and the Evolution of Habitat Protection Legislation Stuart Bell
PART IV CONCLUSION 19. Remapping Contract Law: Four Perceptions of Markets
TT Arvind and Jenny Steele