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LAW 221 Sources of Obligation (1): Reading list

LAW 221 Sources of Obligation (1)


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.


Module texts

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.

Recommended readings

Related readings

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)

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