Contract Law Text, Cases, and Materials

This book has three principal aims. The first is to provide an exposition of the rules that make up the law of contract. To this end it seeks to describe and to analyse the central doctrines of the modern law of contract and to explore the principal controversies associated with these doctrines. It seeks to fulfi l this aim through a combination of text, cases, and materials. The function of the text is both to explain and to evaluate the principal rules and doctrines of contract law and to provide a commentary on the leading cases and statutes. Th e cases chosen for inclusion in the book are the leading cases on the law of contract. The ‘materials’ consist of statutes, statutory instruments, re-statements of contract law, extracts from text, and academic articles. Secondly, the book aims to explore the law of contract in its transactional context. It is not confi ned to an analysis of the doctrines that make up the law of contract but extends to the terms that are to be found in modern commercial contracts and the principles that are applied by the courts when seeking to interpret these contracts. The third aim is to explore English contract law in a transnational and comparative perspective. This is not a book on comparative contract law but it does attempt to take account of documents such as the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law