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050	0	0	_aKD1554 _b.M585 2022
082	0	0	_a346.4202 _223/eng/20220131
100	1		_aMitchell, Catherine, _d1966- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aVanishing contract law : _bcommon law in the age of contracts / _cCatherine Mitchell, University of Birmingham.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource (xxiv, 232 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLaw in context
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).
505	0		_aVanishing 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.
520			_aEnglish 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.
650		0	_aContracts _zEngland.
650		0	_aContracts _zEnglish-speaking countries _xPhilosophy.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781316514139
830		0	_aLaw in context.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082600
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