Contracts category: 335 books
Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay
On the Empirical and the Lyrical
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
This book contains the papers prepared for a conference held at the Wisconsin Law School in 2011 to honour the work of Stewart Macaulay, one of the most famous contracts scholars of his generation. Macaulay has been writing about contracts and contract law for over 50 years; the 1960s were particularly...
by Donald Charrett
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Written by an engineer and construction lawyer with many years of experience, The Application of Contracts in Engineering and Construction Projects provides unique and invaluable guidance on the role of contracts in construction and engineering projects. Compiling papers written and edited by the...
The Tech Contracts Handbook
Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This handbook is a user-friendly reference manual and training guide on software licenses and other IT agreements, along with cloud computing issues. This handbook is for both lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, corporate counsel, salespeople, and anyone...
by Charles Boundy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
If money is the lifeblood of business, contracts are the arteries that help carry it around the commercial body. Anyone in business is liable to have to deal with business contracts, but few are trained to do so. Even those that are trained may have experience in limited areas or in the distant past....
The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Contracts and Sales Agreements for Non-Lawyers
Guide for Non-Lawyers, #5
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Self-Help Guides to the Law™ explain the law in clear, concise terms to a popular audience of non-lawyers. Summarizing the key areas of the law with which readers are most likely to come into contact, the Guides broadly outline the statutes and cases that govern landlord-tenant relations, personal...
Vitiation of Contracts
International Contractual Principles and English Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Vitiation of Contracts proposes a new theory to explain the rationale of general vitiating factors in English contract law. It provides a clear link to voluntariness as the foundation of contractual liability and compares the English position, in light of this theory, with the Principles of International...
Contracts in the Real World
Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Contracts, the foundation of economic activity, are both vital and misunderstood. This book corrects the misunderstandings through a series of engaging stories involving such diverse individuals as Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Clive Cussler, Lady Gaga and Donald Trump. Capturing the essentials...
Contracts
A 1L Success Guide Outline
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
This outline is the outline I wish I had for my 1L Contracts courses. ***
One of the best ways to succeed in law school is to have skeleton outlines prepared in advance of class. That way, you already have a roadmap of where the day's lecture will go. It cuts down on confusion, allowing...
by Tiffany Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
In this straightforward look at how contracts are used in everyday business life, Tiffany Kemp shows us how to use contracts to help us build stronger, more profitable relationships with our customers.If you've ever wondered why lawyers object to you offering clients your 'best endeavours', or whether...
The Three and a Half Minute Transaction
Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu clause in cross-border sovereign debt contracts,...
by JW Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book adopts a principled approach to the law applied in the construction of commercial contracts. This approach is presented as part of a coherent theory of the law of contract construction which makes a unique contribution to scholarship and understanding of the most important aspect of the...
by Douglas G. Baird
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s set of principles, properly understood, continue to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The 1986 article by Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart titled "A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" has provided a framework for understanding how firm boundaries are defined and how they affect economic performance. The property rights approach has provided a formal way to...
Fairness in Consumer Contracts
The Case of Unfair Terms
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book focuses on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts, in particular the existing legislation and the proposals by the Law Commissions for a new unified regime. In this context it considers, in particular, what we mean by fairness (both procedurally and in substance); the tools used; the...