Contract Law and the Legislature: Autonomy, Expectations, and the Making of Legal Doctrine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781509926107)

This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in light of the impact that statutes have had on its development. With contributions from leading contract law scholars, it fills a significant gap in existing theoretical and doctrinal analyses of contract law, which rely primarily on cases to put forward accounts of the general principles and structure of contract law.

Statutory rules are, typically, seen as being specific instances of legal regulation that carve out exceptions to these general principles for specific reasons of policy. This treatment of these rules has resulted in an incomplete understanding of the nature of contract law and the principles that underpin it. By drawing specifically on contract statutes, the volume produces a more complete picture of modern contract law. A companion to the ground-breaking Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change (Hart Publishing, 2012) this collection will have a significant impact on the study of contract law.

Author: Tt Arvind
ISBN-10: 1509926100
ISBN-13: 9781509926107
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2020
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d