Understanding Contract Law (Understanding Law)

by JohnN.Adams (Author), RogerBrownsword (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  The third edition of this book is ideal for teachers of law who want a succinct but intellectually challenging overview of contract law for their students. Written by the same author team as the popular Understanding Law, it provides an accessible analysis of contract law whilst putting forward new ideas. This third edition follows the book's established style of interpreting judicial decision-making in contract cases by examining the pressure on judges to follow a traditional approach yet also meeting the reasonable expectations of both commercial and consumer contractors in the modern market-place. Recent developments in the field are examined, including Ruxley Electronics v. Forsyth, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, and the challenges presented by electronic commerce.

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  Paperback
  2007

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  * Presents a succinct but intellectually challenging overview of contract law * Goes beyond traditional black letter exposition to provide a real understanding of the subject * Offers a unique analysis of contract doctrine - the authors' terminology of market-individualism and consumer-welfarism has been widely adopted * Explains how the contract rule-book emerged, and how the rule-book doctrines and particular judicial decisions reflect a range of underlying tensions (relating to the general ideologies of adjudication and the particular ideologies of contract) * Includes all key case law and statutory developments