Contents of Commercial Contracts

Paul S Davies is Professor of Law and Magda Raczynska is Associate Professor of Law, both at University College London.

• 1. Freedom of Contract and Terms Affecting Freedoms Magda Raczynska and Paul S Davies2. Binding Our Future Selves Robert Stevens3. Anti-Oral Variation Clauses: Rock-Solid or Rocky? Andrew Burrows4. Controlling Contractual Interpretation Richard Calnan5. Good Faiths and Contract Terms Magda Raczynska6. Excluding Good Faith and Restricting Discretion Paul S Davies7. The New Override of Bans on Assignment of Receivables Hugh Beale8. The Boundaries of a Borrower’s Freedom to Act: Negative Covenants in Loan Agreements Louise Gullifer and Graham Penn9. ‘Ethical Clauses’ in Global Value Chain Contracts: Exploring the Limits of Freedom of Contract Lucinda Miller10. Smart Contracts Sarah Green and Adam Sanitt11. Disproportionate Penalties in Commercial Contracts William Day12. Opting for ‘Documentary Fundamentalism’: Respecting Party Choice for Entire Agreement and Non-Reliance ClausesJonathan Morgan13. Planning for Failure: Contract Design, Ineffective Bargains and Restitution Niamh Connolly14. ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’? The Inevitable Conflict between Contract Law and Free Speech in Cyberspace Nicholas J McBride15. Private Law and Public Concerns: Non-Disclosure Agreements in English Contract Law Catharine MacMillan16. Professional Ethics and NDAs: Contracts as Lies and Abuse? Richard Moorhead17. Choice of Court and Choice of Law Agreements: Freedom of Freedom of Contract Alex Mills18. Illegality in English Arbitration Law after Patel v Mirza Uglješa Grušic and Manuel Penades Fons19. The Reform of Insurance Warranties: Looking Beyond the Past John Lowry and Rod Edmunds20. The Right to Delivery of Goods under Contracts of Carriage Melis Özdel21. The Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms – A Response Jacqueline Cook

This is a book teeming with insights … Practical, insightful and entertaining, this book will stimulate further discussion of its diverse subject matter. The editors have collated these thought-provoking chapters, each of which invites the reader to revisit and explore long-held assumptions about fundamental principles of contract law. Its value lies not only its application to the issues of contract law in the modern day but so too the challenges that the future will inevitably bring. Who could ask for more?