Contract Formation and Parties

Andrew Burrows is Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, University of Oxford and is also a door tenant at Fountain Court Chambers, London.Edwin Peel is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Keble Collage, University of Oxford and a Consultant at Clifford Chance LLP, London.

• Foreword ; Introduction ; Letters of Intent ; The Status of Agreements to Negotiate in Good Faith ; Offer and Acceptance in the Electronic Age ; A Bird in the Hand: Consideration and Promissory Estoppel ; Contract Formation: Promissory Estoppel ; Liability in Tort for Pre-Contractual Non-Disclosure ; Liability in Unjust Enrichment where a contract fails to materialise ; Problems in Assignment Law ; Why there is no magic in agency ; A Review of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999