Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole

Robert Merkin QC is the Lloyd's Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Exeter and Special Counsel to Duncan Cotterill. James Devenney is the McCann FitzGerald Chair of International Law and Business at UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland and Professor of Transnational Commercial Law at the University of Reading, UK.

1. Keeping Commercial Law Up to Date 2. Examining English contract law in the light of Brexit – an end to the European dream? 3. From the 2004 Communication on European Contract to the 2015 Draft Directive on the Supply of Digital Content: harmonisation, Unification or Transformation of EU Private Law 4. Harmonization and Contract in a Globalized World 5. Integrating Remedies for Misrepresentation: Co-Ordinating a Coherent and Principled Framework 6. The Contract Formation under the Caveat Emptor Rule: Assessing its Utility 7. Consideration in the Modification of Contracts 8. Estoppel and Promises: The Importance of Coherence, Rationalisation, and Adhering to Basic Principles 9. Privity of Contract: Statutory Developments 10. Recent Developments in Illegal Contracts 11. Restraint of Trade Doctrine: A Traditional Tool Fit for the Modern Economy? 12. The Intractable Problems of Illegality and Public Policy in the Law of Contract –A Comparative Perspective 13. Director’ Financial Liabilities Standards: Opportunism and the Proper Approach to Detterence