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Law of Obligations A: Law of Contract (08 21220) | University of Birmingham
Law of Obligations A: Law of Contract (08 21220) (Academic Year 2017-2018)
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Suggested purchases (3 items) Contract law - Ewan McKendrick, 2017 Book | Suggested for student purchase | Will be available as a bundle with the Burrows Casebook from the University Bookshop. A casebook on contract 5th ed - A. S. Burrows, 2016 Book | Suggested for student purchase | Available as a bundle with the McKendrick textbook from the Campus bookshop. Blackstone's statutes on contract, tort & restitution, 2017-2018 - 2017 Book | Suggested for student purchase | You can take this statute book into the examination with you but it must be completely clean without any notes, highlighting, sticky notes, pages turned down etc.
Alternative Recent Textbooks (7 items)
Contract law: unfold the problem, reveal the law, apply to life - T. T. Arvind, 2017 Book | Background Contract law: text, cases, and materials - Ewan McKendrick, 2016 Book | Background Textbook on contract law - Jill Poole, 2016 Book | Background Casebook on contract law - Jill Poole, 2016 Book | Background Anson's law of contract - J. Beatson, A. S. Burrows, John Cartwright, 2016 Book | Background The law of contract - Edwin Peel, G. H. Treitel, 2015 Book | Background Contract law - Mindy Chen-Wishart, 2015 Book | Background
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Older textbooks (6 items)
Some good analysis, but out of date on the law. Up to date versions may be available. Contract - Paperback - H G Beale, W D Bishop, M P Furmston - Oxford University Press 5th ed - 2007 Book
Contract law - George Applebey, 2001 Book
Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's law of contract - M. P. Furmston, G. C. Cheshire, C. H. S. Fifoot, A. W. B. Simpson, 2012 Book
Andrews, Contract Law Webpage | eBook Unlocking contract law - Chris Turner, 2010 Book
The law of contract - Janet O'Sullivan, Jonathan Hilliard, 2010 Book
Detailed works on specific areas of Contract Law (6 items) Contract formation and letters of intent - M. P. Furmston, Takao Norisada, Jill Poole, 1998 Book | Background Misrepresentation - David K. Allen, 1988 Book | Background Misrepresentation, mistake and non-disclosure - John Cartwright, 2012 Book | Background Exemption clauses and unfair terms - Elizabeth Macdonald, 2006 Book | Background Duress, undue influence and unconscionable dealing - Nelson Enonchong, 2012 Book | Background Good faith and fault in contract law - J. Beatson, Daniel Friedmann, 1995 Book | Background
General works on leading contract cases and contract law history (3 items)
Landmark cases in the law of contract - Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell, 2008 Book
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Leading cases in the common law - A. W. B. Simpson, 1995 Book
A history of the common law of contract: the rise of the action of assumpsit - A. W. B. Simpson, 1975 Book
General overviews of contract law and contract law theory (8 items) Contract Law Minimalism - Jonathan Morgan, 2013 Book | Recommended | Chapter 1 and chapter 6 Contract law: rules, theory, and context - Brian Bix, 2012 Book | Background Contract law: rules, theory, and context - Brian Bix, 2012 Book | Background Contract law: themes for the twenty-first century - Roger Brownsword, 2006 Book | Background Contract theory - Stephen A. Smith, 2004 Book | Background Contract as promise: a theory of contractual obligation - Charles Fried, 1981 Book | Recommended | Chapters 1 and 2 The death of contract - Grant Gilmore, 1974 Book | Background Atiyah's Introduction to the law of contract - P. S. Atiyah, Stephen A. Smith, 2006 Book | Background
Chitty on contracts (3 items)
A comprehensive account of the rules of contract law Chitty on contracts: Volume 1: General principles - H. G. Beale, 2012 Book
Chitty on contracts: Volume 1: General principles - H. G. Beale, 2012 Book
Chitty on contracts: Volume 2: Specific contracts - H. G. Beale, 2012 Book
Academic articles (23 items) Creating a contract - offer and acceptance (9 items) 3/7
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Quackery and Contract Law: The Case of the Carbolic Smoke Ball - A. W. B. Simpson, 1985 Article
Trashing with Trollope: A Deconstruction of the Postal Rules in Contract - Simon Gardner, 1992 Article
Dispatching the dispatch rule? The postal rule, e-mail, revocation and implied terms. Elizabeth Macdonald, 2013 Article
Forming Contracts without Offer and Acceptance, Lord Denning and the Harmonisation of English Contract Law - Richard Stone, 2014 Article
The Battle of the Forms and the Law of Restitution - Ewan McKendrick, 1988 Article
More in Expectation than Hope: The Blackpool Airport Case - John N. Adams, Roger Brownsword, 1991-03 Article
Thomas & Anor v BPE Solicitors (A Firm) [2010] EWHC 306 (Ch) (19 February 2010) Webpage | This case considers when emailed acceptances take effect. Read paras [82] [90] in particular. Offer and acceptance in the electronic age - Donal Nolan Chapter
Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study - Stewart Macaulay, 1963 Article
Creating a contract - ensuring enforceability (consideration and certainty) (7 items) In Defence of Foakes v. Beer - Janet O'Sullivan, 1996 Article | Useful reading for seminar 2 Consideration: Practical Benefit and the Emperor's New Clothes - Mindy Chen-Wishart Chapter
In Defence of Consideration - Mindy Chen—Wishart Article
Contract, Consideration and the Critical Path - John Adams and Roger Brownsword, 1990 Article
Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd [1991] 1 QB 1[1990] 2 WLR 1153 Legal Case Document
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In re Selectmove Ltd [1995] 1 WLR 474 Legal Case Document
Feminist Judgments - Hunter, Rosemary Book | p 184 onwards - Baird v M & S decision.
Problems in the agreement process (7 items) Misrepresentation Act 1967 - P. S. Atiyah and G. H. Treitel, 1967 Article
Mistake in Contract Law - Melvin A. Eisenberg, 2003-12 Article
The Further Travails of Duress - Ewan McKendrick Chapter
Contracting under Pressure: A Theory of Duress - Stephen A. Smith, 1997 Article
Undue Influence: Beyond Impaired Consent and Wrongdoing towards a Relational Analysis - Mindy Chen-Wishart Chapter
On the Nature of Undue Influence - Peter Birks, Chin Nyuk Yin Chapter
Unconscionability in Contracts - S. M. Waddams, 1976 Article
Contents of the agreement (5 items) Interpreting Commercial Contracts - Catherine Mitchell Chapter
Can Judges Use Business Common Sense in Interpreting Contracts? - Lord Hodge Chapter
Express and Implied Terms in Contracts - Lord Neuberger Document
The Unfair Contract Terms Act: Wider Still and Wider? - Steve Hedley, 1992 Article
The Council, the Computer and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 - Elizabeth MacDonald, 1995 Article
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Changing and performing the agreement (4 items) Estoppel and the protection of expectations - Elizabeth Cooke, 1997-07 Article
Some Landmarks of Twentieth Century Contract Law - Guenter Treitel, 2002-03-21 Book | Chapter 1 - Agreements to vary a contract The law and economics of contract modifications: the case of Williams v. Roffey - Antony W. Dnes, 1995-6 Article
Privity of Contract: Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties [1996] EWLC 242 (31 July 1996) Webpage
When things go wrong (9 items) Impossibility and Related Doctrines in Contract Law: An Economic Analysis - Richard A. Posner and Andrew M. Rosenfield, 1977 Article
Damages for Breach of Contract. Compensation and 'Personal Preferences': Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth - Jill Poole, 1996 Article
Damages for Breach of Contract: Compensation, Restitution and Vindication - David Pearce and Roger Halson, 2008 Article
The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages: 1 - L. L. Fuller, William R. Perdue, 1936-11 Article
The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages: 2 - L. L. Fuller, William R. Perdue, 1937-01 Article
Contract Damages, Ruxley, and the Performance Interest - Brian Coote, 1997 Article
Damages for Lost Profits for Late Redelivery: How Remote Is Too Remote? - Janet O'Sullivan, 2009 Article
The Case for Specific Performance - Alan Schwartz, 1979-12 Article
THE PENALTY CLAUSE DOCTRINE: UNLOVABLE BUT UNTOUCHABLE - Jonathan Morgan, 2016-03 Article
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Contract: There's Still Life in the Classical Law - Catherine Mitchell, 2003 Article | Example of a casenote - notice the style of it.
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