Contract Law
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 5/14/2015
EAN 9781107660649, ISBN10: 1107660645
Paperback, 705 pages, 24.7 x 17.4 x 2.9 cm
Language: English
Significantly streamlined and updated, the second edition of Andrews' Contract Law now provides a clear and succinct examination of all of the topics in the contract law curriculum. Chapters direct students to the most important decisions in case law and employ a two-level structure to integrate short judicial excerpts into detailed discussion and analysis. Exploration of the law's 'loose ends' strengthens students' ability to effectively analyse case law, and new end-of-chapter questions, which focus on both core aspects of the law and interesting legal loopholes, assist students in preparing for exams. Students are guided through chapter material by concise chapter overviews and a two-colour text design that highlights important chapter elements. Suggestions for further reading and a rich bibliography, which point readers to important pieces of contemporary literature and provide a springboard for deeper investigation of particular topics, lend further support for student learning.
Part I. Introduction
1. Main features of contract law
Part II. Formation
2. The pre-contractual phase
3. Offer and acceptance
4. Certainty
Part III. Consideration and Intent to Create Legal Relations
5. Consideration and estoppel
6. Intent to create legal relations
Part IV. Third Parties and Assignment
7. Third parties
8. Assignment
Part V. Vitiating Elements
9. Misrepresentation
10. Mistake
11. Duress, undue influence and unconscionability
Part VI. Terms and Interpretation
12. Terms in general
13. Implied terms
14. Interpretation and rectification of written contracts
15. Exclusion clauses and 'unfair terms'
Part VII. Breakdown and Liability
16. Frustration
17. Breach and performance
Part VIII. Remedies for Breach
18. Judicial remedies for breach of contract
19. Consensual remedies for breach of contract
liquidated damages and deposits
Part IX. Illegality and Public Policy
20. The illegality doctrine
Part X. The Future
21. The 'good faith' debate
22. Codification
23. International and European 'soft law' codes
lessons for English law?