Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: This module covers the willful sources of obligation, i.e. contract and unilateral promise. It is intended to explain and discuss the relevant main topics under both English law and UAE law. It will cover several topics, such as offer & acceptance, consideration & promissory estoppel, the subject-matter of contract, the legitimate causes of contract, privity & third parties, types of contract, competence of parties & contracts by agents, terms of contract, limitation of liability, conditional and unbinding contracts, restrictions on contractual freedom (mistake, duress and deceit), frustration and termination of contracts, unilateral promise, electronic contracts (formation & documentation, time & place of the contract), and interpretation of contracts; the court’s power to amend the contract.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law, prepared purposefully for this particular module.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts prepared purposefully for this particular module.
E McKendrick, Contract Law (15th edn Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) Purchase eBook / Access 12th edition
O’Sullivan & Hilliard, The Law of Contract (10th edn Oxford UP, 2022)
Beatson et al, Anson’s Law of Contract (31st edn Oxford UP, 2020)
T Peel, The Law of Contract (13th edn Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell, 2011)
A Burrows, A Casebook on Contract Law (7th edn Hart, 2020)
Contract Law in Practice / Neil Andrews 2021 (Book)
Contract Law / From: Business and Investment in Brazil: Law and Practice / Peter Sester 2022 (Book chapter)
Global Sales and Contract Law (2nd Edition) / Ingeborg Schwenzer, Edgardo Muñoz 2022 / (Book)
For further readings on the topic visit The Oxford Legal Research Library (OLRL)
