Andrew Burrows

A Casebook on Contract (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'...provides everything you want in a case book: a stimulating, thought-provoking and up to date account of contract law. It combines both fantastic academic commentary and superbly selected materials making it simply one of the best contract law casebooks.' Student Law Journal

This is the seventh, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' Casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases.

Designed to be used either on its own or to supplement a contract law textbook, this book covers the undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented and carefully structured chapters.

The author provides an expert introduction to each topic and his succinct notes and questions seek to guide students to a proper understanding of the cases. The relevant statutes are also set out along with a principled analysis of them.

In addition to cross-references to further discussion in the leading textbooks, an innovative feature is the summary of leading academic articles in each chapter.

The book is designed not to overwhelm students by its length but covers all aspects of the law of contract most commonly found in the undergraduate curriculum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509936151
• Artikelnr.: 59523089

Autorenporträt

Andrew Burrows, MA, DCL, LLM (Harvard), KC (Hon), FBA, Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is Professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He has been appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (from 2 June 2020). He has been President of the Society of Legal Scholars, a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a lecturer at the University of Manchester and Professor at University College, London. His other books include Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract, The Law of Restitution, Understanding the Law of Obligations, A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment, and A Restatement of the English Law of Contract. He is a joint author of Anson's Law of Contract.

Inhaltsangabe

Summary of Contents PART ONE: THE FORMATION OF A CONTRACT 1. OFFER AND
ACCEPTANCE 1. Introduction 2. Offers and Invitations to Treat 3. Acceptance
4. Termination of an Offer 5. Problematic Offer and Acceptance 2. CERTAINTY
AND INTENTION TO CREATE LEGAL RELATIONS 1. Certainty 2. Intention to Create
Legal Relations 3. CONSIDERATION AND PROMISSORY ESTOPPEL 1. Consideration
2. Promissory Estoppel PART TWO: THE TERMS OF A CONTRACT 4. IDENTIFYING THE
TERMS 1. Terms or Mere Representations? 2. Incorporation of a Party's
Written Terms 3. Implied Terms 5. INTERPRETING THE TERMS 1. The Modern
Approach to Construction 2. Construction of Exemption Clauses 6. STATUTORY
CONTROL OF EXEMPTION CLAUSES AND UNFAIR TERMS 1. The Unfair Contract Terms
Act 1977 2. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Part 2 Etc) PART THREE: REMEDIES
FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT 7. TERMINATION 1. The Meaning of Termination for
Breach 2. Conditions, Warranties and Innominate Terms 3. Termination
Clauses 4. Anticipatory Breach 5. Restitution after Termination for Breach
6. Consumer Contracts for Goods (or Digital Content) 8. DAMAGES 1.
Compensatory Damages 2. An Account of Profits 3. Negotiating Damages 4.
Agreed/Liquidated Damages and Penalties 9. DIRECT ENFORCEMENT 1. The Award
of an Agreed Sum 2. Specific Performance 3. Injunctions PART FOUR: PRIVITY
OF CONTRACT AND THIRD PARTY RIGHTS 10. PRIVITY OF CONTRACT AND THIRD PARTY
RIGHTS 1. Introduction 2. Four Cases Establishing or Confirming the Privity
Doctrine (on its Benefit Side) 3. Exceptions to Privity (on its Benefit
Side) 4. The Promisee's Remedies in a Contract Made for the Benefit of a
Third Party 5. The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 6.
Exceptions to the Privity Doctrine on its Burden Side PART FIVE: FACTORS
ALLOWING ESCAPE FROM A CONTRACT 11. MISREPRESENTATION 1. Requirements of
Misrepresentation 2. Rescission for Misrepresentation 3. Damages for
Misrepresentation 4. Exemption of Liability for Misrepresentation:
Misrepresentation Act 1967, Section 3 12. MISTAKE 1. Unilateral Mistake 2.
Common Mistake 13. FRUSTRATION 1. The Early Approach of Absolute Liability
2. The Kinds of Events that Amount to Frustration 3. Factors Excluding
Frustration 4. The Juristic Basis of Frustration 5. The Effects of
Frustration 6. The Relationship Between Common Mistake and Frustration 14.
DURESS 1. Duress of the Person 2. Economic Duress 15. UNDUE INFLUENCE AND
EXPLOITATION OF WEAKNESS 1. Undue Influence 2. Exploitation of Weakness