Vanishing Contract Law
Common Law in the Age of Contracts
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Part of Law in Context
- Author: Catherine Mitchell, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: September 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316514139
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English contract law provides the invisible framework that underpins and enables much contracting activity in society, yet the role of the law in policing many of our contracts now approaches vanishing point. The methods by which contracts come into existence, and notionally create binding obligations, have transformed over the past forty years. Consumers now enter into contracts through remote and automated processes on standard terms over which they have little control. This book explores the substantive weakening of the institution of contract law in a society heavily dependent on contracts. It considers significant areas of contracting activity that affect many people, but that escape serious and sustained legal scrutiny. An accessibly written and succinct account of contract law's past, present and future, it assesses the implications of a diminished contract law, and the possibilities, if any, for its revival.
Read more- Contextualises modern contract law using practical examples, considering the role of regulation and its relationship to contract law
- Examines practically important areas of contracting activity that affect many people, but that contract law largely ignores
- Accessibly written account of contract law's past, present and future, making it beneficial and approachable for a wide range of readers
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- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316514139
- length: 250 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Vanishing contract law
2. Contract common law trends
3. Contractualisation and the common law retreat
4. Private ordering, regulation and contract law
5. Contracts through the gaps
6. Future challenges for contract law
7. The possibility of common law revival
8. Conclusion.
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