Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: This module covers the execution of legal rights whether discretionary or obligatory. It deals with conditional obligations and time of performance. It also covers descriptions and modalities, obligation transmission, right & debt assignment; substitutionary performance, such as set-off agreements; specific performance & damages; legal mechanisms for protecting legal performance; right to retain; joint liability; assignment of rights/debts; termination, repudiation, force majeure. It is intended to consider these topics under both English law and UAE law.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law, 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 OUP, 2022)
P Treitel, The Law of Contract (14th edn Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell, 2015)
A Burrows, A Casebook on Contract Law (7th edn Hart, 2020)
