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Neil Andrews, Contract Rules – Decoding English Law

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DOI10.3366/elr.2018.0476
Published date01 January 2018
Date01 January 2018
Pages176-177

When this reviewer was sent her – long and eagerly awaited – copy of “Contract Rules – Decoding English Law”, the book review editor very fittingly remarked in his accompanying correspondence that this publication sounded “like an ambitious endeavour”; he was right. Considering the vastness and complexity of the subject of (English) Contract Law, this book embodies indeed an ambitious undertaking which, as Andrews himself rightly points out in the “Preface”, borders on “mission impossible” because “the law of contract is expensive to find and hard to summarise”. This is doubtlessly a very apt description of the feelings, which many practitioners, scholars and students of English contract law will have experienced over the years. Indeed, any reader of “Contract Rules” might be forgiven any scepticism as to whether the book's aim “to offer rules which are neither too detailed […] nor too thin” (Preface) with the aim of achieving “secure guidance” had been achievable or whether this undertaking had been doomed to failure from the start. Without wishing to pre-empt the final verdict on this publication though, readers of “Contract Rules” can rest assured that they will not be disappointed by its contents nor its quality as this book represents, at the very...

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