
Essays on Contract
P. S. Atiyah(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 2. August 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
404 pages
978-0-19-825444-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a revised edition of the paperback, Essays on Contract which was published by OUP in 1988. With the addition of a further previously unpublished essay, this book can be seen as the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of Professor Atiyah's views on the law and theory of contract. The new essay `Freedom of Contract and the New Right' charts the latest shift in the development of contract law, this time back in the direction of Freedom of Contract. This shift, Professor Atiyah argues, can be traced directly to the growing strength of the `New Right' and its advocacy of political and economic freedom.
Reviews / Votes
`these essays are of the highest quality and will be compulsory reading for any serious student of the law of obligations.'The Irish Jurist
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Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
573 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-825444-7 (9780198254447)
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Author
former Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, and Honorary Fellowformer Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, and Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford
Content
The modern role of contract law; contracts, promises and the law of obligations; Holmes and the theory of contract; Fuller and the theory of contract; form and substance in contract law; the liberal theory of contract; executory contracts, expectation damages and the economic analysis of contract; consideration - a restatement; judicial techniques and the law of contract; misrepresentation, warranty and Estoppel; contract and fair exchange; freedom of contract and the New Right.