Catherine Mitchell

Vanishing Contract Law (eBook, PDF)

Common Law in the Age of Contracts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

English contract law provides the invisible framework that underpins and enables much contracting activity in society, yet the role of the law in policing many of our contracts now approaches vanishing point. The methods by which contracts come into existence, and notionally create binding obligations, have transformed over the past forty years. Consumers now enter into contracts through remote and automated processes on standard terms over which they have little control. This book explores the substantive weakening of the institution of contract law in a society heavily dependent on contracts. It considers significant areas of contracting activity that affect many people, but that escape serious and sustained legal scrutiny. An accessibly written and succinct account of contract law's past, present and future, it assesses the implications of a diminished contract law, and the possibilities, if any, for its revival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009085106
• Artikelnr.: 66176828

Autorenporträt

Catherine Mitchell is a Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Exeter, UK and is Director of the Energy Policy Group. She has worked on energy policy issues since the 1980's. She has been a Member of numerous national and international Boards and projects. Her current area of interest is appropriate governance for innovation in energy systems. She is also a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC AR6 WG3 Chapter on National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Vanishing contract law
2. Contract common law trends
3. Contractualisation and the common law retreat
4. Private ordering, regulation and contract law
5. Contracts through the gaps
6. Future challenges for contract law
7. The possibility of common law revival
8. Conclusion.