Textbook on Contract Law

1:Introduction to the law of contract
Part 1 Formation
2:Agreement
3:Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel
4:Intention to be legally bound, formalities and capacity to contract
Part 2 Content, Interpretation, Performance and Privity
5:Content of the contract and principles of interpretation
6:Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms
7:Privity of contract and third party rights
Part 3 Vitiating Factors
8:Mistake
9:Misrepresentation
10:Duress, undue influence, and unconscionable bargains
11:Illegality
Part 4 Performance and termination of contract
12:Discharge by frustration: subsequent impossibility
13:Breach of contract
14:Damages for breach of contract
15:Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies

Robert Merkin QC is Professor of Law, University of Reading; Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Exeter; and Special Counsel to Duncan Cotterill. Robert has written a number of texts and articles on contract, insurance and arbitration. He is co-editor of the Lloyd's Law Reports. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) in 2015 and was awarded a higher doctorate by Cardiff University in the same year. In 2018 Rob became Honorary Life President of the International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA). He has co-edited the book Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws (Routledge, 2018).

Séverine Saintier is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Exeter. She has co-edited Vulnerable Consumers and the law, Consumer Protection and Access to Justice (Routledge, 2020) and written a number of articles for leading journals including the Journal of Business Law and the European Review of Private Law. Séverine is co-author with Robert of the privity chapter in Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws (Routledge, 2018).