Contract Law

Ewan McKendrick is Registrar and Professor of English Private Law in the University of Oxford, UK, where he is also a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He is the author of a number of key works on contract law and commercial law, and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts. He is also a barrister in practice at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn and a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn. Qiao Liu is an Associate Professor in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he teaches and researches in contract law, commercial law and Chinese law.

1. Introduction PART I: THE FORMATION AND SCOPE OF A CONTRACT 2. Agreement: Clearing the Ground 3. Offer and Acceptance 4. Certainty and Agreement Mistakes 5. Consideration and Form 6. Estoppel 7. Intention to Create Legal Relations 8. Third Party Rights PART II: THE CONTENT OF A CONTRACT 9. What is a Term? 10. The Sources of Contractual Terms 11. The Classification of Contractual Terms 12. Exclusion Clauses PART III: POLICING THE CONTRACT 13. A Duty to Disclose Material Facts? 14. Misrepresentation 15. Common Mistake and Frustration 16. Illegality 17. Capacity 18. Unfair Exploitation and Unfair Contracts PART IV: PERFORMANCE, DISCHARGE AND REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT 19. Performance and Discharge of the Contract 20. Breach of Contract 21. Damages for Breach of Contract 22. Obtaining an Adequate Remedy