ABSTRACT

The Future of the Law of Contract brings together an impressive collection of essays on contract law. Taking a comparative approach, the aim of the book is to address how the law of contract will develop over the next 25 years, as well as considering the ways in which changes to the way that contracts are made will affect the law.

Topics include good faith; objectivity; exclusion clauses; economic duress; variation of contract; contract and privacy law in a digital environment; technological change; Choice of Court Agreements; and Islamic finance contracts.

The chapters are written by leading academics from England, Australia, Canada, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia. As such, this collection will be of global interest and importance to professionals, academics and students of contract law.

chapter Chapter 1|5 pages

An overview

chapter Chapter 2|22 pages

The implied obligation of good faith

chapter Chapter 3|20 pages

Good faith in the Supreme Court of Canada

chapter Chapter 4|23 pages

The quagmire of utmost good faith in insurance law

A comparative study of Malaysian, Australian and English laws in consumer insurance contracts

chapter Chapter 5|23 pages

Objectivity

chapter Chapter 6|18 pages

Automated transactions and the law of contract

When codes are not congruent

chapter Chapter 9|25 pages

Setting out a comprehensive legal framework to govern exemption clauses in Malaysia

Lessons from the United Kingdom and Australia

chapter Chapter 10|32 pages

Economic duress

Present state and future development in England, Australia and Malaysia