• New generation of law textbook that presents contract law in a visually appealing manner with diagrams and boxed features to help explain the complexities of the subject and to bring it to life
• Clarity of explanation using everyday language makes critical debate and difficult areas of the law readily accessible
• Colour diagrams, flowcharts, and tables provide a visual representation of the complexities of the law, thereby helping students to easily put these into context
• Counterpoint and reflection boxes encourage students to reflect on their reading and to fully consider counter arguments
• Key points and questions are clearly listed at the end of each chapter and encourage students to assess their understanding and prepare for their revision
• Supported by a website (Online Resource Centre) providing updates, annotated web-links and guidance on self-test questions, ensuring that students are kept up to date with developments and know how to approach questions on the subject area
• New to the website are PowerPoint slides with accompanying audio files, voiced by the author, explaining how the diagrams in the book came together and how these can be interpreted
• Available on the website is a fully customisable test bank of multiple choice questions for lecturers to test their students' progress and understanding

New to this edition

• Thoroughly updated throughout with special attention paid to the introductory chapter and chapter 12 Direct Control Over Terms, in the light of the Law Commission Report on Unfair Terms
• On the website, PowerPoint slides with accompanying audio files, voiced by the author, explain how to interpret the diagrams in the book

Readership: Undergraduate students taking courses in contract law.

Mindy Chen-Wishart, Reader in Contract Law, Oxford University, and Fellow in Law, Merton College, Oxford University

1: Introduction
Contract formation
2: The test of intention: objectivity and mistake of terms
3: Agreement
4: Enforceability: consideration, formalities, promissory estoppel
Vitiating factors
5: Misrepresentation and non-disclosure
6: Mistake of fact
7: Frustration
8: Duress
9: Unfairness: undue influence, non-commercial guarantees, unconscionable bargains
The contents of contracts
10: Identifying contractual terms
11: Interpretation of terms
12: Direct control over terms
Breach and remedies for breach
13: Breach of contract and termination
14: Damages
15: Specific and agreed remedies
Privity
16: Privity