Contract Law

Contract Law is a best-selling core textbook written by the leading expert in the field. Its comprehensive coverage and incisive analysis gives students the edge in coursework and exams. Unrivalled for its clarity of explanation, it expertly links contractual judicial legal theory, practice to practical contractual issues to provide students with a deep understand of contract law. Fully updated with the latest developments in the law, it makes an idea core text for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.>

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Ewan McKendrick KC (Hon) is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor of Anglo-American Private Law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

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This best-selling, fully updated textbook by Ewan McKendrick KC provides a clear account of the basic rules of contract law, while also introducing current debates about the nature, scope and functions of the law and discussing wider controversies surrounding the basic doctrines.

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1. Introduction and Overview
2. The Scope, Basis and Global Impact of the Law of Contract

Part I: The Formation and Scope of a Contract

3. Agreement: Clearing the Ground
4. Offer and Acceptance
5. Certainty and Agreement Mistakes
6. Consideration and Form
7. Intention to Create Legal Relations
8. Third Party Rights

Part II: The Content of a Contract

9. What is a Term?
10. The Identification and Incorporation of Contract Terms
11. Interpretation, Implication and Rectification
12. The Classification of Contractual Terms
13. Exclusion Clauses

Part III: Policing the Contract

14. A Duty to Disclose Material Facts?
15. Misrepresentation
16. Common Mistake and Frustration
17. Illegality
18. Capacity
19. Duress, Undue Influence and Inequality of Bargaining Power
20. Good Faith
21. Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts

Part IV: Performance, Discharge and Remedies for Breach of Contract

22. Performance and Discharge of the Contract
23. Breach of Contract
24. Damages for Breach of Contract
25. Obtaining an Adequate Remedy