Contract Law

by Chen-Wishart, Mindy

• ISBN13: 9780199689163
• ISBN10: 0199689164
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-05-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, Contract Law takes a unique approach to a complex subject.

Chen-Wishart combines academic rigor with an innovative visual approach, presenting the law with diagrams, flowcharts and tables to provide you with a stimulating account of key principles and an engaging analysis of the complexities of contract law. Thought-provoking analytical features, such as the 'Pause for reflection' and 'Counterpoint' boxes encourage you to actively and critically engage with the topics.

The book is accompanied by a suite of online resources including animated versions of selected diagrams with audio commentary; guidance on answering the questions posed in the book; web links to key cases and legislation; updates; and two additional chapters on incapacity and illegality & public policy.

Additionally, lecturers have access to a test bank, and electronic copies of the diagrams from the book.

Author Biography

Mindy Chen-Wishart, Reader in Contract Law, Oxford University Law Faculty, Fellow of Merton College Oxford, and Professor of Law, National University of Singapore

Mindy Chen-Wishart is Reader in Contract Law in the Law Faculty at Oxford University, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. Previously she was a senior lecturer at Otago University, New Zealand, and Rhodes Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I: Contract formation
2. Agreement
3. Enforceability: consideration, formalities, promissory estoppel
Part II: Privity
4. Privity
Part III: 'Vitiating' factors
5. Misrepresentation and non-disclosure
6. Mistaken assumptions
7. Frustration
8. Duress
9. Unfairness: undue influence, non-commercial guarantees, unconscionable bargains
Part IV: The contents of contracts
10. Identifying and interpreting contractual terms
11. Direct control over terms
Part V: Breach and remedies for breach
12. Breach of contract and termination
13. Damages
14. Specific and agreed remedies