Neil Andrews is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He is an experienced contract law teacher and scholar and has published widely.

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Main features of contract law; Part II. Formation: 2. The pre-contractual phase; 3. Offer and acceptance; 4. Certainty; Part III. Consideration and Intent to Create Legal Relations: 5. Consideration and estoppel; 6. Intent to create legal relations; Part IV. Third Parties and Assignment: 7. Third parties; 8. Assignment; Part V. Vitiating Elements: 9. Misrepresentation; 10. Mistake; 11. Duress, undue influence and unconscionability; Part VI. Terms and Interpretation: 12. Terms in general; 13. Implied terms; 14. Interpretation and rectification of written contracts; 15. Exclusion clauses and 'unfair terms'; Part VII. Breakdown and Liability: 16. Frustration; 17. Breach and performance; Part VIII. Remedies for Breach: 18. Judicial remedies for breach of contract; 19. Consensual remedies for breach of contract: liquidated damages and deposits; Part IX. Illegality and Public Policy: 20. The illegality doctrine; Part X. The Future: 21. The 'good faith' debate; 22. Codification; 23. International and European 'soft law' codes: lessons for English law?

'This book endeavours to rise above the increasing volume and complexity of this important subject by introducing readers to its general themes, principles and rules, with an awareness of international influences on its modern development. It combines a distillation of its core elements with careful and thorough guidance to enhance understanding, so as to enable students to learn to find their way through the thicket of modern contract law and practices.' Francis Rose, University of Southampton