From: Jason W Neyers
<jneyers@uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday 13 February 2025
00:44
To: obligations
Subject: ODG: Teaching Contract: My
Way
Dear Colleagues:
Congratulations
to Professor David McLauchlan whose new book, Teaching Contract: My Way,
has now been published by Thomson Reuters: https://store.thomsonreuters.co.nz/teaching-contract-my-way/productdetail/130600.
This is the first of two volumes in which he seeks to explain and illustrate
his approach to teaching the law of contract by reproducing the text of a
selection of classes he has conducted over more than 50 years of teaching the
subject. The aim of these classes is to assist the development of the
analytical, critical and other lawyering skills that will equip students for
their future careers in the law while at the same time ensuring that they have
a firm grounding in the core principles of the subject.
The
chapters in the first volume traverse the principles of formation (including
privity) in the context of Socratic discussions between a familiar-sounding
professor and hypothetical student. This approach allows for different issues,
topics and fact patterns to be explored in a way that is intended to be
engaging, enlightening and entertaining.
This
is a book for all readers of law - from students early in their legal
development to members of the profession who need a refreshed reference to the
law of contract.
From the Foreword by Sir Stephen Kós:
"What
is magnificent about this idea is that it combines for posterity both David's
talents: here is not just profound scholarship, but also his method of
teaching. This work's influence on a generation of teachers of law should be
profound. Unlike journal articles or textbook chapters, these chapters draw you
in inexorably, so you become part of the conversation between professor and
student. As would be expected, they are warm, wise, disciplined and
depth-finding."
Table of Contents
Foreword - Sir Stephen Kós
Preface
1.
Introduction
2. Pharmaceutical
Society v Boots Cash Chemists
3. Chapelton
v Barry UDC
4. Smith
v Hughes
5.
Boulder Consolidated v Tangaere
6. Dysart
Timbers v Nielsen
7.
Revocation of Offers: Dickinson v Dodds
8. Byrne v
Leon Van Tienhoven
9. The
Postal Acceptance Rule: Part One
10 The
Postal Acceptance Rule: Part Two
11. The Postal
Acceptance Rule: Part Three
12. Aotearoa
International v Scancarriers and Devani v Wells
13 Unilateral
Contracts: Markholm Construction, Blackpool Aero Club and Harvela
Investments
14. Jones v
Padavatton
15. The Battle of
the Forms
16. The Doctrine
of Consideration
17. Pao On v
Lau Yiu Long
18. The Rule in Stilk
v Myrick
19. The Demise of Stilk
v Myrick
20. The Rule in Foakes
v Beer: An Introduction
21. Practical
Benefits, Promissory Estoppel and Foakes v Beer
22. The Curious
Case of Beaton v McDivitt
23. Privity of
Contract: An Introduction
24. Consideration,
Privity and the Joint Promisee Principle
25. Legislative
Reform of the Doctrine of Privity
26. Privity
Reform: A Common Law Development
27. Privity, the
Rights of the Promisee and the Panatown Case
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes and Regulations
Subject Index
Volume two will be published in the next
six months.
Happy
Reading,
Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
Law Building Rm 26
e. jneyers@uwo.ca
t. 519.661.2111 (x88435)
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