Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:45

From: Jason Neyers

Subject: New Hart Books

Dear Colleagues:

Congratulations go out to our fellow ODG contributors Charles Mitchell ('Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract' ) and Ralph Cunnington ( 'Contract Damages') who have both recently had their edited collections published by Hart. Book Details and order forms are attached to this e-mail. There is a 20% discount for ODG members.

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract  
Edited by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell  

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract offers twelve original essays by leading contract scholars. As with the essays in the companion volume, Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (Hart, 2006) each essay takes as its focus a particular leading case, and analyses that case in its historical or theoretical context. The cases range from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-centuries, and deal with an array of contractual doctrines. Some of the essays call for their case to be stripped of its landmark status, whilst others argue that it has more to offer than we have previously appreciated. The particular historical context of these landmark cases, as revealed by the authors, often shows that our current assumptions about the case and what it stands for are either mistaken, or require radical modification. The book also explores several common themes which are fundamental to the development of the law of contract: for instance, the influence of commercial expectations, appeals to 'reason' and the significance of particular judicial ideologies and techniques.

Contract Damages: Domestic and International Perspectives
Edited by Djakhongir Saidov and Ralph Cunnington  

This book is a collection of essays examining the remedy of contract damages in the common law and under the international contract law instruments such as the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. The essays, written by leading experts in the area, raise important and topical issues relating to the law of contract damages from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The book aims to inform readers of current developments, problems, trends and debates surrounding contract damages and reflects an ongoing dialogue on damages among representatives of common law, civil law, mixed and trans-national legal systems. The general issues addressed in ...
May 2008   532pp    hbk    9781841137414    £85.00   

Happy Reading,  

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Jason Neyers
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111 x. 88435

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