TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Catherine
TI  - Vanishing contract law: common law in the age of contracts 
T2  - Law in context
SN  - 9781009082600 (ebook)
AV  - KD1554 .M585 2022
U1  - 346.4202 23/eng/20220131
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Contracts
KW  - England
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022); Vanishing contract law -- Contract common law trends -- Contractualisation and the common law retreat -- Private ordering, regulation and contract law -- Contracts through the gaps -- Future challenges for contract law -- The oossibility of common law revival -- Conclusion
N2  - English contract law provides the invisible framework that underpins and enables much contracting activity in society, yet the role of the law in policing many of our contracts now approaches vanishing point. The methods by which contracts come into existence, and notionally create binding obligations, have transformed over the past forty years. Consumers now enter into contracts through remote and automated processes on standard terms over which they have little control. This book explores the substantive weakening of the institution of contract law in a society heavily dependent on contracts. It considers significant areas of contracting activity that affect many people, but that escape serious and sustained legal scrutiny. An accessibly written and succinct account of contract law's past, present and future, it assesses the implications of a diminished contract law, and the possibilities, if any, for its revival
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082600
ER  -