Description

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Bringing together leading commercial and contract law scholars from the United Kingdom and United States, Comparative Contract Law: British and American Perspectives offers an insightful and comprehensive assessment of the commonalities and divergences in the contract law of these two jurisdictions. Approaching the subject area from a variety of perspectives - doctrinal analysis, behavioral analysis, law and economics, and theoretical - the book examines familiar areas of contract law as practiced in the UK and US. Topics include contract theory and structure; contract formation and defects of consent; policing contracts and the duty of good faith; contract interpretation; damages; speciality contracts; and legal reform.

The volume provides a thorough assessment of the current state of commercial contract law in the UK and US, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the national and European approaches to many issues of contract law. In particular it focuses on how commercial contract law should be improved, and whether harmonization of the different contract law regimes is a suitable, and appropriate, solution.

About the Author

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Larry DiMatteo, Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law and Legal Studies, University of Florida, Martin Hogg, Professor of the Law of Obligations, University of Edinburgh Larry A. DiMatteo is the Huber Hurst Professor at Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. He received his J.D. from the Cornell Law School, his LLM from Harvard Law School, and his PhD from Monash University. He is the former Chair of the Department of Management at the University of Florida and Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal. Martin Hogg is Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Edinburgh Law School, where he is currently serving as its Deputy Head. He is the Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review. Professor Hogg has researched and published extensively in all aspects of the law of obligations.