Contract Law

Commercial Contract Law: Transatlantic Perspectives

Edited by Larry A. DiMatteo · Dr Qi Zhou · Dr Severine Saintier · Professor Keith Rowley
Cambridge University Press August 2014

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ISBN-13
9781107438583
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2014
Format
Paperback , 624 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book focuses on the law of commercial contracts as constructed by the US and UK legal systems. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide works of original scholarship focusing on current debates and trends from the two dominant common law systems. The chapters approach the subject areas from a variety of perspectives - doctrinal analysis, law and economic analysis, and social-legal studies, as well as other theoretical perspectives. The book covers the major themes that underlie the key debates relating to commercial contract law: role of consent; normative theories of contract law; contract design and good faith; implied terms and interpretation; policing contract behavior; misrepresentation, breach and remedies; and the regional and international harmonization of contract law. Contributors provide insights on the many commonalities, but more interestingly, on the key divergences of the United States and United Kingdom's approaches to numerous areas of contract law.

• Presents a comparative, multidisciplinary and scholarly assessment of the current state of commercial contract law in the US, the UK and to some extent in Europe • Takes a wide range of theoretical approaches to study commercial contract • Chapters approach the subject areas from a variety of perspectives - doctrinal analysis, law and economic analysis, and social-legal studies, as well as other theoretical perspectives

Table of Contents

Part I:   The Role of Consent
1
1.        Transatlantic Perspectives: Fundamental Themes and Debates
Larry A. DiMatteo, Qi Zhou, and Séverine Saintier
3
2.        Competing Theories of Contract: An Emerging Consensus?
Martin A. Hogg
14
3.        Contracts, Courts, and the Construction of Consent
Thomas W. Joo
41
4.        Are Mortgage Contracts Promises?
Curtis Bridgeman
67
Part II:  Normative Views of Contract
83
5.        Naturalistic Contract
Peter A. Alces
85
6.        Contract in a Networked World
Roger Brownsword
116
7.        Contract Transactions and Equity
T. T. Arvind
146
Part III: Contract Design and Good Faith
179
8.        The Duty to Draft Reasonably and Online Contracts
Nancy S. Kim
181
9.        Managing Change in Uncertain Times: Relational View of Good Faith
Zoe Ollerenshaw
201
Part IV:  Implied Terms and Interpretation
223
10.       Implied Terms in English Contract Law
Richard Austen-Baker
225
11.       Contract Interpretation: Judicial Role Not Parties’ Choice
Juliet P. Kostritsky
240
Part V:   Policing Contracting Behavior
287
12.       The Paradox of the French Method for Calculating the Compensation of Commercial Agents and the Importance of Conceptualising the Remedial Scheme under Directive 86/653
Séverine Saintier
289
13.       Unconscionability in American Contract Law: A Twenty-First-Century Survey
Charles L. Knapp
309
14.       Unfair Terms in Comparative Perspective: Software Contracts
Jean Braucher
339
15.       (D)CFR Initiative and Consumer Unfair Terms
Mel Kenny
366
Part VI:  Misrepresentation, Breach, and Remedies
383
16.       Remedies for Misrepresentation: An Integrated System
David Capper
385
17.       Re-Examining Damages for Fraudulent Misrepresentation: Towards a More Measured Response to Compensation and Deterrence
James Devenney
416
18.       Remedies for a Documentary Breach: English Law and the CISG
Djakhongir Saidov
434
19.       The Irrelevance of the Performance Interest: A Comparative Analysis of “Keep-Open” Covenants in Scotland and England
David Campbell and Roger Halson
466
Part VII: Harmonizing Contract Law
503
20.       Harmonisation of European Contract Law: Default and Mandatory Rules
Qi Zhou
505
21.       Europeanisation of Contract Law and the Proposed Common European Sales Law
Hector L. MacQueen
529
22.       Harmonization of International Sales Law
Larry A. DiMatteo
559

About the Author

Larry A. DiMatteo, University of Florida
Dr Qi Zhou, University of Sheffield
Dr Severine Saintier, University of Sheffield
Professor Keith Rowley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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