A Casebook on Contract

This is the fourth, 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 in conjunction with 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:

“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, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and 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 a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a lecturer at the University of Manchester and Professor at University College, London. He lectures regularly for the Judicial College, is a Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit and a Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London. His other books include Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract, The Law of Restitution, and Understanding the Law of Obligations. He is a joint author of Anson' s Law of Contract, the general editor of English Private Law and an editor of Chitty on Contracts and Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.