Law : Contracts

Recently the contract section of the German Civil Code was amended after one hundred years of un-altered existence. The German Law of Contract, radically recast, enlarged, and re-written since its first edition, now details and explains for the first time these changes for the benefit of Anglophone lawyers. One hundred and twenty translated contract decisions also make this work a unique source-book for students, academics, and practitioners. Along with its companion volume, The German Law of Torts, the two volumes provide one of the fullest accounts of the German Law of Obligations available in the English language. Through its method of presentation of German law, the book represents an original contribution to the art of comparison. An additional feature of the Contract volume is the way in which it reveals the growing impact which European Directives are having upon the traditional, liberal, contract model, thereby bringing German and English law closer to each other, especially in the area of consumer protection. more...

Price: $295.00

Presents a report of a survey carried out by the Oxford Institute for European and Comparative Law in collaboration with Clifford Chance, which sought the views of European businesses about the advantages and disadvantages of further harmonisation. It brings empirical data to a debate that has thus far lacked clear evidence of this sort. more...

Price: $110.00

This book examines the challenges presented to the law by information technology. It deals with exciting developments in such areas as criminal law,tort, contract and intellectual property law, which have occurred in response to developments in technology. This second edition encompasses discussion of e-commerce and internet regulation, and a deeper consideration of its effect on individual human rights such as privacy and freedom of expression is given. While the book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students studying information technology law, it will also be of interest to practitioners and others whose business relies on modern information technology. more...

Price: $68.00

This book describes the role of Japanese contract law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. Based primarily on Japanese language legal material. more...

Price: $170.00

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract offers twelve original essays by leading contract scholars. As with the essays in the companion volume, Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (Hart, 2006) each essay takes as its focus a particular leading case, and analyses that case in its historical or theoretical context. The cases range from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-centuries, and deal with an array of contractual doctrines. Some of the essays call for their case to be stripped of its landmark status, whilst others argue that it has more to offer than we have previously appreciated. The particular historical context of these landmark cases, as revealed by the authors, often shows that our current assumptions about the case and what it stands for are either mistaken, or require radical modification. The book also explores several common themes which are fundamental to the development of the law of contract: for instance, the influence of commercial expectations, appeals to 'reason' and the significance of particular judicial ideologies and techniques. more...

Price: $50.00