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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract 2008 by Edited by Charles Mitchell Edited by Paul Mitchell Contributions by Gerard McMeel Contributions by David Ibbetson Contributions by Stephen Watterson Contributions by Warren Swain Contributions b
Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract offers twelve original essays by leading contract scholars. As with the essays in the companion volume Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (Hart 2006) each essay takes as its focus a particular leading case and analyses that case in its historical or theoretical context. The cases range from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-centuries and deal with an array of contractual doctrines. Some of the essays call for their case to be stripped of its landmark status whilst others argue that it has more to offer than we have previously appreciated. The particular historical context of these landmark cases as revealed by the authors often shows that our current assumptions about the case and what it stands for are either mistaken or require radical modification. The book also explores several common themes which are fundamental to the development of the law of contract: for instance the influence of commercial expectations appeals to reason and the significance of particular judicial ideologies and techniques.show more