Product Description

Contract Law Directions is written in an informal and engaging style with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered on contract law courses with clarity. No previous knowledge is assumed, making this the ideal text for those encountering contract law for the first time. Logically structured in four parts and designed to reflect the content of undergraduate contract law courses, this book provides clear coverage of all the main topics likely to be encountered by undergraduate law students. Topics are illustrated using examples and cases that relate to real life experiences to provide students with a grounded understanding of contract law. Useful features such as diagrams and flowcharts are presented in a fresh colour design and the many headings guide the reader's progress through the subject. The second edition has been fully revised and updated to include all developments and key cases since the publication of the first edition, particularly with relation to damages, exclusion clauses and undue influence. It also features expanded material relating to performance and breach of contract, with an overview of this material and where it can be found in the book. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an innovative online resource centre offering several resources to support teaching and learning. Lecturers can track student progress using an online bank of 200 multiple choice questions offering immediate answers and feedback that can be customised and loaded on to the university's VLE. They can also access electronic versions of diagrams from the book which can be used in lectures and teaching. Resources for students include guidance on answering end-of-chapter questions, an interactive glossary to test knowledge of key terms, web-links and regular updates to legislation and case-law.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152437 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 450 pages

About the Author
Professor Richard Taylor lectures at the University of Central Lancashire where he was Head of Department from 1990-2005. He has written books and articles on the law of contract, copyright, criminal law, and criminal justice and is an editor of Blackstone's Criminal Practice. He was a member of the Law Panel for both the 1996 and the 2001 Research Assessment Exercises and is an external member of the Academic Quality Council of the College of Law.

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly Sound
This is another "law for dunces" type book, like Elliot & Quinn or Martin "Unlocking Contract". Where it differs markedly from the others is that it seems (I have dipped in extensively, but not read cover-to-cover) actually to be accurate and reliable so far as it goes.

It is very clearly written, in accessible but literate prose, with boxes and diagrams to help those unable or unwilling to identify key cases or produce flowcharts etc. for themselves.

Although I've said elsewhere that if you really need a book like this, you probably shouldn't be reading law at university, I can see two valid uses for it: (1) where a student is struggling to master a particular topic using a heavyweight textbook, s/he can turn to this, read the relevant chapter through in one easy session to get an overview and basic working understanding, and then return to the heavyweight text to fill in greater detail, understanding and approach some analytical/critical understanding; (2) in teaching contract law to non-law students who need to study this area, perhaps for professional exemptions - accountancy, RICS, and the like.

In this segment of the undergraduate law text market (that is to say, the bottom, law-lite, segment) this is way the best contracts book, and the only one I'd recommend to any student of mine; but I'd still expect them to use it in conjunction with a heavyweight text (Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston; Anson; Treitel) not on its own.

Essential Student Guide
This textbook provides a very good structure upon which to build your knowledge of the Law of Contract alongside lectures and seminars. The information is set out in a way that is easy to read and assimilate. The only criticism I have is that on occasion I found it necessary to consult a casebook to supplement notes, but as I would recommend owning both a text and a case book if you are reading this as an aid to study, this is not an entirely negative objection.

Very useful for the non-law student
This book is excellent at explaining contract law to those who do not principally study law. It contains plenty of good case examples and explains concepts in wondeful detail. Highly recommended.