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“stephen waddams”

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  • Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age

    Equity, Fairness and Enrichment

    by Stephen Waddams ...
    The phrase 'sanctity of contracts' implies that contracts should always be strictly enforced. But when this objective is relentlessly implemented ruinous burdens are sometimes imposed on one party and extravagant enrichments conferred on the other. Despite recognition of the need to control highly unreasonable contracts in various particular contexts, there remain many instances in which the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Principle and Policy in Contract Law

    Competing or Complementary Concepts?

    by Stephen Waddams ...
    Although presented as being derived from the past, principles in contract law have been subject to constant reformulation, thereby facilitating legal change while simultaneously seeming to preclude it. Principle and policy have been mutually interdependent, propositions not usually being called principles unless they have been perceived to lead to just results in particular cases, and as likely to ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Contract as Promise

    A Theory of Contractual Obligation

    by Charles Fried ...
    Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract. This book provides two purposes regarding the complex legal institution of the contract. The first is the theoretical purpose ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Contract Law

    Rules, Theory, and Context

    by Brian H. Bix ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    To gain a deep understanding of contract law, one needs to master not only the rules and principles of the field, but also its underlying theory and justification, and its long and intricate history. This book offers an accessible introduction to all aspects of American contract law, useful to both first-year law students and advanced contract scholars. The book is grounded on up-to-date ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Extraterritoriality and Collective Redress

    Edited by Duncan Fairgrieve, Eva Lein ...
    An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress. With contributions from distinguished and authoritative commentators on this topic, the coverage is broad, thorough, and practically focused. The book offers new perspectives on the challenges of collective ... Read more

    $256.49 USD

  • Substance and Procedure in Private International Law

    by Richard Garnett ...
    Series series Oxford Private International Law Series
    When the law of a foreign country is selected or pleaded by a claimant or defendant, a question arises as to whether the issue pertains to substance, in which case it may be resolved by foreign law, or procedure, in which case it will be governed by the law of forum. This book examines the distinction between substance and procedure questions in private international law, and analyses where and ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • The Conflict of Laws

    by Adrian Briggs ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    Could you sue in England if you made a contract with someone overseas, or if you had an accident overseas? If you were to sue in England in one of these cases, which country's laws would be applied? Would you have anything to worry about if you were sued overseas but didn't intend to go back to the country concerned? Could you take steps in England to stop someone suing you overseas? The Conflict ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Claims against Iraqi Oil and Gas

    Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned

    by Rex J. Zedalis ...
    This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot view of Iraq's outstanding debt obligations and an analysis of the significance of the theory of odious debt in the context of the Iraqi situation, the list of legal issues examined includes relevant ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Transnational Commercial Law

    International Instruments and Commentary

    by Roy Goode, Herbert Kronke, Ewan McKendrick, Jeffrey Wool ...
    Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments. Now in its second edition, this authoritative work brings together the major instruments in this field, dividing them into thirteen groups: Treaty Law, Contracts, Electronic Commerce, International ... Read more

    $354.59 USD

  • Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

    by Hakeem O. Yusuf ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in formerly authoritarian societies remains largely elided and under-researched. Hakeem O. Yusuf argues that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence

    Edited by George Duke, Robert P. George ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This collection provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of key topics in contemporary natural law jurisprudence, an influential yet frequently misunderstood branch of legal philosophy. It fills a gap in the existing literature by bringing together leading international experts on natural law theory to provide perspectives on some of the most pressing issues pertaining to the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Corrective Justice

    by Ernest J. Weinrib ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are well known, but how they are organized, explained, and justified is a matter of fierce debate by ... Read more

    $32.39 USD