Contract law and the legislature autonomy, expectations, and the making of legal doctrine
"This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in the light of the impact that statutes have had on its development. With contributions from leading contract law scholars, it fills a significant gap in existing theoretical and doctrinal analyses of con...
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2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in the light of the impact that statutes have had on its development. With contributions from leading contract law scholars, it fills a significant gap in existing theoretical and doctrinal analyses of contract law, which draw almost exclusively on cases in putting forward accounts of the general principles and structure of contract law. Statutory rules are, typically, seen as being specific instances of legal regulation which carve out exceptions to these general principles for specific reasons of policy. This treatment of these rules has resulted in an incomplete understanding of the nature of contract law and the principles that underpin it. By drawing specifically on contract statutes, the volume produces a more complete picture of modern contract law. A companion volume to the ground-breaking Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change (Hart Publishing, 2012) this collection will have a significant impact on the study of contract law"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | "The chapters in this book were initially presented as papers at a workshop held at York Law School in January 2019."--ECIP acknowledgements |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 472 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781509926107 978-1-5099-2610-7 9781509926114 |