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Contract Law and Contract Practice: Bridging the Gap Between Legal Reasoning and Commercial Expectation
Catherine E Mitchell
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Description for Contract Law and Contract Practice: Bridging the Gap Between Legal Reasoning and Commercial Expectation
Hardback. Departing from the literature on contract law and commercial expectations, this book moves contract law beyond a simple dichotomy between contextualist and formalist legal reasoning, to a responsive approach to the regulation of commercial agreements. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; LNCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
An oft-repeated assertion within contract law scholarship and cases is that a good contract law (or a good commercial contract law) will meet the needs and expectations of commercial contractors. Despite the prevalence of this statement, relatively little attention has been paid to why this should be the aim of contract law, how these 'commercial expectations' are identified and given substance, and what precise legal techniques might be adopted by courts to support the practices and expectations of business people. This book explores these neglected issues within contract law. It examines the idea of commercial expectation, identifying what expectations commercial ... Read more
An oft-repeated assertion within contract law scholarship and cases is that a good contract law (or a good commercial contract law) will meet the needs and expectations of commercial contractors. Despite the prevalence of this statement, relatively little attention has been paid to why this should be the aim of contract law, how these 'commercial expectations' are identified and given substance, and what precise legal techniques might be adopted by courts to support the practices and expectations of business people. This book explores these neglected issues within contract law. It examines the idea of commercial expectation, identifying what expectations commercial ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849461214
SKU
V9781849461214
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About Catherine E Mitchell
Catherine Mitchell is a Reader in Law at the University of Hull.
Reviews for Contract Law and Contract Practice: Bridging the Gap Between Legal Reasoning and Commercial Expectation
Mitchell's book is a very valuable contribution to our understanding of and thinking about relational contract theory...Her book deserves to be read by every serious student of contract law.
Hugh Beale
Journal of Law and Society
This is a stimulating and highly insightful work, meticulously researched, carefully argued, and both cognisant of and scrupulously fair to counter-argument. ... Read more
Hugh Beale
Journal of Law and Society
This is a stimulating and highly insightful work, meticulously researched, carefully argued, and both cognisant of and scrupulously fair to counter-argument. ... Read more