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This is the fifth, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases. Designed to be used either on its own or to supplement a contract law textbook, this book covers the undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented and carefully structured chapters. The author provides an expert introduction to each topic and his succinct notes and questions seek to guide students to a proper understanding of the cases. The relevant statutes are also set out along with a principled analysis of them. In addition to cross-references to further discussion in the leading textbooks, an innovative feature is the summary of leading academic articles in each chapter. The book is designed not to overwhelm students by its length but covers all aspects of the law of contract most commonly found in the undergraduate curriculum.
PART ONE: THE FORMATION OF A CONTRACT
1. OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE
1. Introduction
2. Offers and Invitations to Treat
3. Acceptance
4. Termination of an Offer
5. Problematic Offer And Acceptance
2. CERTAINTY AND INTENTION TO CREATE LEGAL RELATIONS
1. Certainty
2. Intention to Create Legal Relations
3. CONSIDERATION AND PROMISSORY ESTOPPEL
1. Consideration
2. Promissory Estoppel
PART TWO: THE TERMS OF A CONTRACT
4. IDENTIFYING THE TERMS
1. Terms or Mere Representations?
2. Incorporation of a Party's Written Terms
3. Implied Terms
5. INTERPRETING THE TERMS
1. The Modern Approach to Construction
2. Construction of Exemption Clauses
6. STATUTORY CONTROL OF EXEMPTION CLAUSES AND UNFAIR TERMS
1. The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
2. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Part 2 Etc)
PART THREE: REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
7. TERMINATION
1. The Meaning of Termination for Breach
2. Conditions, Warranties and Innominate Terms
3. Termination Clauses
4. Anticipatory Breach
5. Restitution after Termination for Breach
6. Consumer Contracts for Goods (or Digital Content)
8. DAMAGES
1. Compensatory Damages
2. Restitutionary Damages/An Account of Profits
3. Agreed/Liquidated Damages and Penalties
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This is the fifth, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases. Designed to be used either on its own or to supplement a contract law textbook, this book covers the undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented and carefully structured chapters. The author provides an expert introduction to each topic and his succinct notes and questions seek to guide students to a proper understanding of the cases. The relevant statutes are also set out along with a principled analysis of them. In addition to cross-references to further discussion in the leading textbooks, an innovative feature is the summary of leading academic articles in each chapter. The book is designed not to overwhelm students by its length but covers all aspects of the law of contract most commonly found in the undergraduate curriculum.
