Part 1 Contemporary issues in the socio-legal analysis of contract: franchising - the draftsman's contract, John Adams; from co-operative contracting to a contract of co-operation, Roger Brownsword; the relational constitution of the discrete contract, David Campbell; competing norms of contractual behaviour, Hugh Collins; contracts, co-operation and trust - the role of the institutional framework, Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson; the parasitic role of hybrids, Michael Hutter and Gunther Teubner; relational contracts and repeated games, Morten Hviid. Part 2 Socio-legal analysis of public sector contracting: long-term contracts in the market for health care, Paul Fenn et al; contracts in the NHS - searching for a model?, David Hughes et al; limits of contract in internal CCT transactions - a comparative study of buildings cleaning and refuse collection in "Northern Metropolitan", Peter Vincent-Jones and Andrew Harries; contracts for public services - a comparative perspective, Kieron Walsh et al.