Contract 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

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.

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A major new Australian adaptation of the best-selling introduction to contract law, providing an authoritative but accessible examination of the foundational principles of this complex area.