Vanishing Contract Law
eBook - PDF

Vanishing Contract Law

Common Law in the Age of Contracts

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Vanishing Contract Law

Common Law in the Age of Contracts

About this book

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.

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Information

Topic
Law
Subtopic
Civil Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Table of Cases
  10. Table of Statutes
  11. 1 Vanishing Contract Law
  12. 2 Contract Common Law Trends
  13. 3 Contractualisation and the Common Law Retreat
  14. 4 Private Ordering, Regulation and Contract Law
  15. 5 Contracts through the Gaps
  16. 6 Future Challenges for Contract Law
  17. 7 The Possibility of Common Law Revival
  18. 8 Conclusion
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Index