This book challenges the orthodox understanding of the expectation principle, as famously laid down by Parke B in Robinson v Harman, and proposes a new account of the money awards provided in response to breach of contract.
"This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gap caused by AI systems - vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for intercon…
A collection of essays by leading British and American contract and commercial law scholars, comparing fundamental aspects of US and British contract law and assessing their commonalities and divergences. Bringing together leading commercial and contract law scholars from the Un…
"Electronic Commerce and International Private Law examines the maximization of consumer protection via the consumer's jurisdiction and law. It discusses the proposition that a new connecting factor be used to improve the efficiency of juridical protection for consumers who cont…
"This book is a large-scale historical reconstruction of liberal legalism, from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the moment in which the jurists forged the alliance between political liberalism and legal expertise embodied in classical private law doctrine, to the co…
Revolution and evolution in private law
The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginally different factual circumstances presented to them for determination. This is said to be the common…
This book offers a contractual framework for the regulation of party autonomy in choice of law. The party autonomy rule is the cornerstone of any modern system of choice of law; embodying as it does the freedom enjoyed by parties to a cross-border legal relationship to agree on …
A brief introduction to the contract damage award -- Pure services : non-supply/defective supply/delayed supply -- Misadvice (especially professional negligence) and contractual misstatement -- Property non-delivery, destruction and defects (damage, sale, construction, misrepair…
"To aid understanding and practicality of use, the book is arranged by the type of complaint, such as the mis-provision of services, the non-payment of money, or the temporary loss of use of property. It also includes sections on causation, remoteness, and other general principl…
Helps you to optimise your graduate recruitment activities, such as: how the labour market works and the picture for graduate recruiters; how to identify and optimise the benefits brought to you by graduates; what you can expect from graduates and what they want from you; how to…