Poole's Casebook on Contract Law

All the cases you need, together with the tools to understand them.This contract casebook presents all the leading cases, supplemented by succinct author commentary and thought-provoking questions to deepen your understanding.

Now updated by Professor Robert Merkin and Dr Severine Saintier, Poole's Casebook on Contract Law takes a uniquely supportive approach, to give you the confidence to engage with and analyse judgments.

Online resources:
The study of contract law continues via the online resources, keeping you up to date and helping to consolidate your learning.
- Exercises and guidance on reading cases
- Updates on new legislation, cases, and other legal developments

Robert Merkin, Professor of Commercial Law, Exeter Law School, University of Exeter, Severine Saintier, Senior Lecturer, Exeter Law School, University of Exeter

Robert Merkin is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter and Special Counsel to Duncan Cotterill. He has taught the law of contract for many years. Robert has written a number of texts and articles on contract, insurance and arbitration. He is co-editor of the Lloyd's Law Reports. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) in 2015 and was awarded a higher doctorate by Cardiff University in the same year. In 2018 Rob became Honorary Life President of the International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA). He has co-edited the book Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws, Routledge (2018).

Severine Saintier is Senior lecturer at the University of Exeter where she teaches contract, commercial, and French contract law. She has authored publications such as Commercial Agency Law: A Comparative Analysis, Ashgate, (2002) and written a number of articles for leading journals including the Journal of Business Law and the European Review of Private Law. Severine is co-author with Robert of the privity chapter in Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws, Routledge (2018).