Scholars of Contract Law (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goudkamp, James; Nolan, Donal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a counter-balance to the traditional focus on judicial decisions by exploring the contribution of legal scholars to the development of private law.

In the book the work of a selection of leading scholars of contract law from across the common law world, ranging from Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674-1726) to Professor Brian Coote (1929-2019), is addressed by legal historians and current scholars in the field. The focus is on the nature of the work produced by the scholars in question, important influences on their work, and the impact which that work in turn had on thinking about contract law. The book also includes an introductory chapter and an afterword by Professor William Twining that explore connections between the scholars and recurrent themes.

The process of subjecting contract law scholarship to sustained analysis provides new insights into the intellectual development of contract law and reveals the central role played by scholars in that process. And by focusing attention on the work of influential contract scholars, the book serves to emphasise the importance of legal scholarship to the development of the common law more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509938476
• Artikelnr.: 66803372

Autorenporträt

Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, UK. James Goudkamp is Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is also a practising barrister at 7 King's Bench Walk Chambers, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface v Contributors ix Table of Cases xi Table of Legislation xvii 1. Scholars of Contract Law: Individuals and Themes
1 James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan 2. Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674
1726)
47 Michael Lobban 3. Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765
1837)
75 Joanna McCunn 4. Stephen Martin Leake (1826
1893)
105 Catharine MacMillan 5. Professor Sir William Anson (1843
1914)
129 Robert Stevens 6. Professor Sir Frederick Pollock (1845
1937)
149 James Gordley 7. Professor Samuel Williston (1861
1963)
175 Todd D Rakoff 8. Professor Arthur Linton Corbin (1874
1967)
201 Gregory Klass 9. Professor Geoffrey Cheshire (1886
1978) and Cecil Fifoot (1899
1975)
229 Warren Swain 10. Professor Friedrich Kessler (1901
1998)
253 Hugh Collins 11. Professor Sir Guenter Treitel (1928
2019)
277 Andrew Burrows 12. Professor Ian Roderick Macneil (1929
2010)
295 Jonathan Morgan 13. Professor Brian Coote (1929
2019)
331 Stephen Waddams viii Contents 14. Professor Patrick Atiyah (1931
2018)
351 James Goudkamp 15. Afterword: Understanding Contracts
A Realist Perspective
379 William Twining Index
407