A Research Agenda for Contract Law

Name: A Research Agenda for Contract Law
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035342570
Price: 1450.15 HKD
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Author: Severine Saintier; Maggie Hemsworth; Timothy J. Dodsworth
ISBN: 9781035342570

Edited by Severine Saintier · Maggie Hemsworth · Timothy J. Dodsworth

New Arrival Edward Elgar Publishing July 2026

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781035342570
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: July 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This forward-thinking Research Agenda provides actionable solutions for maintaining the domestic and worldwide commercial relevance of English contract law. It divides barriers faced by the law into three key areas of concern: risk, sustainability and vulnerability.

Leading experts highlight the crucial role English contract law plays in governing international transactions and emphasise the need for adaptability in order to preserve societal values while enacting commercially efficient strategies. They reframe global challenges to break down traditional categorisations and siloed-thinking to establish new ways of finding effective solutions. The chapters examine the links between insurance contracts, responsibilities and risk, digital transformations and the shift from economic efficiency to eco-efficiency, proposing innovative solutions for future-proofing English contract law.

A Research Agenda for Contract Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of commercial law and contract law. Legal practitioners will also benefit from its novel insights and recommendations for future practice.

1.
A research agenda for contract law: Introduction 1: Timothy Dodsworth, Maggie Hemsworth and Severine Saintier; PART I RISK; 2.
The importance of knowing what an insurance contract is 26: Peter MacDonald Eggers KC; 3.
Digital transformation in insurance: the contract-as-product approach to overcoming information overload 50: Margarida Lima Rego; 4.
The future of contract and the allocation of responsibility and risk 75: Gerard McMeel KC; PART II SUSTAINABILITY; 5.
The future of commercial law reforms: Paradigm shift from economic efficiency to eco-efficiency 113: Muriel Renaudin; 6.
Sustainable circular economy and contract law: impacts, gaps and opportunities 134: Katrien Steenmans; 7.
Disrupting anthropocentric supply chains to recentre nature 157: Ursula Davis, Lucy McCarthy, Anne Touboulic and Errolinda Ward; PART III VULNERABILITY; 8.
Private contracts and public problems: Understanding the future of contracting through resilient property theory 175: Marc L. Roark; 9.
Equity, consumers and secret commissions: The developing law 190: Derek Whayman; 10.
Negligent misstatement, antifragility, and the state 212: Richard Mullender