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A Research Agenda for Contract Law

Edited by Severine Saintier · Maggie Hemsworth · Timothy J. Dodsworth
Coming Soon Edward Elgar Publishing Available July 2026

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

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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.

Table of Contents

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
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