Contract Law

1: Introduction

Part I: Forming Contracts
2: Bargaining and agreeing: offer, acceptance, and formation
3: Consideration: the requirement of mutuality
4: Contracts and informal relations: the intention to create legal relations
5: Non-contractual promises: promissory and proprietary estoppel
Part II: Keeping Contracts
6: Assembling the contract: representations, terms, and incorporation
7: Interpreting the terms: construction, rectification, and mutual mistake
8: Filling the gaps: implied terms
9: Flexible terms: uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness
10: Fundamental changes: frustration and common mistake
Part III: Regulating Contracts
11: Untrue statements: misrepresentation and unilateral mistake
12: The limits of hard bargaining: duress and undue influence
13: Controlling contract terms: exclusion clauses, penalties, and consumer protection
14: Protecting the public interest: the doctrine of illegality
Part IV: Enforcing Contracts
15: Breach of contract: repudiation and the right to terminate
16: Compensatory remedies: damages for breach of contract
17: Non-compensatory remedies: specific performance, debt, and restitution

18: Privity and third parties: protecting the rights of non-parties

TT Arvind is Professor of Law at the University of York. His research focuses on the history and social context of private law and he has a strong interest in developing problem-based and experiential approaches to teaching and learning in law.