This is the fifth, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases. Designed to be used either on its own or to supplement a contract law textbook, this book covers the undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented and carefully structured chapters. The author provides an expert introduction to each topic and his succinct notes and questions seek to guide students to a proper understanding of the cases. The relevant statutes are also set out along with a principled analysis of them. In addition to cross-references to further discussion in the leading textbooks, an innovative feature is the summary of leading academic articles in each chapter. The book is designed not to overwhelm students by its length but covers all aspects of the law of contract most commonly found in the undergraduate curriculum.
Praise for PREVIOUS EDITIONS
Professor Burrows' A Casebook on Contract provides everything you want in a case book: a stimulating, thought-provoking and up to date account of contract law. It combines both fantastic academic commentary and superbly selected materials making it simply one of the best contract law casebooks.
Student Law Journal
2013
Excellent update. Continues to be the best Text, Cases and Materials volume out there.
Jeremias Prassl, St John's College, Oxford
The most up-to-date text. Student friendly.Excellent coverage of the case law.
Dr Benjamin Andoh, Southampton Solent University, Law School
An outstanding casebook: concise extracts that capture all relevant aspects, clear and helpful comments, and up-to-date and well-selected suggestions for further reading.
Florian Wagner Von Papp, University College London
Probably the best and most straightforward text, with very good commentary and
overview of further reading.
Ewan McGaughey, King's College, London
.simply excellent, as it has case comments and insightful questions.to work out
tutorial problems Burrows is essential.
Anca Chirita, Durham Law School
Clear, comprehensive, incisive and up-to-date.
Professor Joshua Getzler, St Hugh's College, Oxford
Andrew Burrows, MA, DCL, LLM (Harvard), KC (Hon), FBA, Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is Professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He has been appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (from 2 June 2020). He has been President of the Society of Legal Scholars, a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a lecturer at the University of Manchester and Professor at University College, London. His other books include Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract, The Law of Restitution, Understanding the Law of Obligations, A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment, and A Restatement of the English Law of Contract. He is a joint author of Anson's Law of Contract.
