Ewan McKendrick has been an instrumental figure in shaping the law of obligations, both as a practitioner and as a professor at the University of Oxford and University College London. On the occasion of his retirement from the Oxford Law Faculty, this volume presents a collection of essays in his honour. The contributions pay tribute to and reflect the breadth of Ewan McKendrick's scholarship and published work. Many are comparative in nature, reflecting a key element of his work. The volume is divided into four parts: contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and commercial law, with each of the 23 essays discussing a particular complex question or idea in its area. Topics include duress, good faith, frustration, the illegality defence, contractual interpretation, the basis for different forms of damages, the role of contracts in family life, corporate liability, the Marex tort, receivables financing, the regulation of international commercial contracts, the sale of goods, the development of transnational commercial law, mistakes of law, and implied terms.
All 25 of the contributors have either been taught by, or worked closely with Ewan McKendrick (or, in some cases, both); and are all leading academics and/or practitioners, including two current members of the United Kingdom Supreme Court and a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
I. Contract 1: Hector MacQueen: Facility, Circumvention, Economic Duress and the Corporate Veil 2: John Cartwright: Good Faith in English Contract Law: Lessons from Comparative Law? 3: Richard Taylor: Rethinking Reliance Damages for Breach of Contract 4: Andrew Burrows: The Illegality Defence in the Courts Today 5: Mindy Chen-Wishart & Jodi Gardner: Schrödinger's Lawful Act Duress: Dead or Alive? 6: Rebecca Probert & Tim Dodsworth: Contracts and Relationships of Love and Trust 7: William Day: Shades Of Frustration 8: Robert Stevens: Repeal the Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 9: Adam Kramer: Contractual Interpretation: Meaning, Intention and Disembodied Spirits 10: Philip Sales: Contractual Interpretation: Antinomies and Boundaries 11: Sarah Worthington: The Damage in Negotiating Damages 12: Roger Halson: The Critical Reception of Cavendish Square Holdings v Makdessi II. Tort 13: James Edelman: Direct and Vicarious Liability of Corporations 14: Donal Nolan: Damage to 'Other Property': Exploring the Boundary Between Property Damage and Pure Economic Loss 15: James Goudkamp: Procuring Wrongs III. Commercial 16: Louise Gullifer: Who Can Sue the Obligor when Receivables are Financed? 17: Stefan Vogenauer: The 'Tripartite Guide' to Uniform Instruments in the Area of International Commercial Contracts: Background, Status, and Legal Effects 18: Hugh Beale: The Sale of Goods Act and the Nature of Sales 19: Roy Goode: Transnational Commercial Law and Impediments to its Development IV. Unjust Enrichment 20: Helen Scott: Mistakes of Law, Again 21: Nili Cohen: The External Shield of a Contract - Torts, Equity, Restitution 22: Qiao Liu: Unjustified Enrichment in China: An Uncertain Path 23: Edwin Peel: Implied Terms and Restitution
Edwin Peel is Professor of Law at Keble College, Oxford, where he has taught since 1994. He was previously a Lecturer at Leeds University. He is most well known as the author of Treitel: The Law of Contract and has published more widely in the areas of Contract, Torts, Shipping and Private International Law. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, having previously held posts at the Universities of Aberystwyth, Sussex, and Warwick. She has also served as a specialist advisor to the Law Commission. Her research focuses on the law and history of marriage, bigamy, divorce, and cohabitation.
