The Law of Contract

• Main Author: Collins, Hugh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Butterworths 1993
• Edition: second edition
• Series: Law in context
• Subjects: Contracts
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxvii, 399 pages 24cm
• ISBN: 0406031479; 9780406031471

"This book is a highly articulate and readable critique of the basis of the law of contract and contractual doctrines. It seeks to show that the techniques applied to the solution of contractual disputes were formerly based on a partly concealed set of inherent values which can loosely be referred to by the phrase 'freedom of contract'-personal freedom, minimal regulation, belief in the beneficial role of market forces and so forth - but that these have now been visibly affected and largely superseded by a different set of values which seeks among other things to remedy the injustices of the free market-paternalism, trust, fairness, co-operation and the like. It is a book which sets out in a clear and felicitous manner, and for the most part with moderation, points which most contract teachers must have tried to make at some time and in some way, but presents them as part of a consistent whole... Most readers will disagree with what is said at some points, perhaps at many; this of course does not detract from, but adds to, the stimulating nature of the work." - F.M.B. Reynolds, Law Quarterly Review