Contract Formation and Parties NCS C

This book presents a collection of current thinking on the central themes of contract formation and parties. The eighth volume in the Oxford-Norton Rose Law series the chapters originate from papers presented at the colloquium held in September 2009. The Oxford-Norton Rose Law colloquia bring together practitioners and academics to examine and discuss an area of commercial law central to both communities. The book begins with an introduction by the editors which draws out the central features of the discussions at the colloquium and includes a foreword by Lord Justice Longmore. It is then structured around these two primary themes of the colloquium and includes contributions from eminent academics.

Lord Justice Longmore: Foreword; Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel: Introduction; Michael Furmston: Letters of Intent; Edwin Peel: The Status of Agreements to Negotiate in Good Faith; Donal Nolan: Offer and Acceptance in the Electronic Age; Mindy Chen-Wishart: A Bird in the Hand: Consideration and Promissory Estoppel; Ben McFarlane: Contract Formation: Promissory Estoppel; John Cartwright: Liability in Tort for Pre-Contractual Non-Disclosure; James Edelman: Liability in Unjust Enrichment where a contract fails to materialise; Andrew Tettenborn: Problems in Assignment Law; Thomas Krebs: Why there is no magic in agency; Hugh Beale: A Review of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999

Andrew Burrows is Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, University of Oxford and is also a door tenant at Fountain Court Chambers, London. Edwin Peel is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Keble Collage, University of Oxford and a Consultant at Clifford Chance LLP, London.