Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law

Katy Barnett is Lecturer in Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.William Day is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings, UK.Jonathan Morgan is Reader in English Law and Fellow of Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge, UK.Andrew Robertson is Professor of Law and Director of Studies in Private Law at Melbourne Law School, Australia.

• 1. Mandatory and Default Rules: Issues and Themes, Katy Barnett, William Day, Jonathan Morgan and Andrew Robertson 2. Default and Mandatory Rules in Contract and Commercial Law: A Judicial Perspective, Sir David Foxton3. Default Rules, Interpretation and Risk Allocation, Andrew Robertson4. Party Intention, Default Rules and Contract Theory, Ryan Catterwell 5. Default Rules in Contract Formation, William Day6. Default Terms in Sale of Goods Contracts, Louise Gullifer and Louise Merrett 7. When it’s Mandatory to be ‘Reasonable’: the Nature and Application of Reasonableness under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, Devon Airey8. Mandatory Statutory Rules, Consumer Contracts and Contractual Interpretation, Jeannie Marie Paterson 9. Frustration Dissected: Mandatory and Default Rules, Jonathan Morgan10. Date of Breach as a Sticky Default Rule and the Role of the Court in Assessing Reasonable Mitigatory Measures, Katy Barnett11. The Express Modification of Contract Law’s Default Remedial Rules, David Winterton 12. Three Forms of Default Rules (in the Law of Unjust Enrichment), Rory Gregson 13. Equity in Commerce: Why do we need Default Rules?, Man Yip14. From Mandatory to Default Rules: Trusts in the ‘Commercial’ Context, Ying Khai Liew