Contract Law : Principles and Context

Contract Law : Principles and Context
ISBN: 9781107687486
Publication Date: 21 June 2019

Contract Law: Principles and Context presents the development of contract law through a considered selection of cases that are both authoritative and used as factual examples to explain the law.

The text introduces readers to the nature and range of contracts, the process for making a contract, rights and duties, adjustments to contracts, vitiating factors and unfair conduct, ending contracts, and remedies and restitution. The text considers the historical development of contracts through case law and legislation, then takes the reader to particular issues with contracts as they might arise in real life and navigates a legal pathway through them.

Written in a clear and engaging style, Contract Law provides a fresh, topical and accessible account of the Australian law of contract, and is an invaluable resource for contract law students and practitioners.

About the Authors

Andrew Stewart is the John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide and works as a consultant with the national law firm Piper Alderman. His research areas are employment law, contract law and intellectual property. He has published extensively in these areas, with some of his sole or co-authored works including Stewart's Guide to Employment Law (2008), Creighton & Stewart's Labour Law (6th edition, 2016), Intellectual Property in Australia (2nd edition, 1997) and Independent Contractors: A Practical Guide (2013). Andrew Stewart is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, an Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law and co-director of the Adelaide Law School's research group on Work and Employment Regulation.

Warren Swain is Professor of Law and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. He has prev...