The Future of the Law of Contract

Herausgeber: Furmston, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Future of the Law of Contract takes a comparative approach in addressing how the law of contract will develop over the next twenty-five years, as well as considering the ways in which changes to the way that contracts are made will affect the law.

Produktdetails

• Markets and the Law
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780367174033
• ISBN-10: 0367174030
• Artikelnr.: 67825942

Autorenporträt

Professor Michael Furmston is an internationally-acknowledged authority on contract and commercial law. The author of the leading textbook Cheshire Fifoot & Furmston on Contract (17th edition 2017) and Editor of the Construction Law Reports, volumes 1-150, his published work extends to over 20 books and many dozens of articles, chapters and other contributions. An eminent academic, he has taught at Oxford, where he was a Fellow of Lincoln College; at Bristol, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Pro Vice Chancellor; and also at other institutions of international standing. He was appointed Emeritus Professor at Bristol in 1998 and Dean and Professor at Singapore Management University's School of Law. Professor Furmston was called to the English Bar in 1960 (Gray's Inn) and has been a Bencher of Gray's Inn since 1989. He appeared in the House of Lords in Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth on the measure of damages for defective construction and has acted as consultant to many clients, owners, contractors and consultants on commercial and construction law. ORCID 0000-0002-6954-2698

Inhaltsangabe

1. An Overview 2. The Implied Obligation of Good Faith 3. Good Faith and
the Supreme Court of Canada 4. The Quagmire of Utmost Good Faith in
Insurance Law: A Comparative Study of Malaysian, Australian, and English
Laws in Consumer Insurance Contracts 5. Objectivity 6. Automated
Transactions and the Law of Contract: When Codes are Not Congruent 7. The
Resilience of Contract Law in Light of Technological Change 8. A Collision
of Contract and Privacy Law in a Digital Environment-An Accident Waiting to
Happen! A Comparative Study 9. Setting Out a Comprehensive Legal Framework
to Govern Exclusion Clauses in Malaysia: Lessons from the United Kingdom
and Australia 10. Economic Duress: Present State and Future Development:
England, Australia and Malaysia 11. The Validity of Choice of Court
Agreements in International Commercial Contracts Under the Hague Choice of
Court Convention and the Brussels Ia Regulation 12. De-Identification of
Islamic Finance Contracts by the Common Law Courts