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Scholars of Contract Law edited by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, xix + 416 pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-993846-9

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Scholars of Contract Law edited by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, xix + 416 pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-993846-9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2023

David Campbell*
Affiliation:
Lancaster University Law School, UK

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society of Legal Scholars

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References

1 Goudkamp, J and Nolan, DScholars of contract law: individuals and themes’ in Goudkamp, J and Nolan, D (eds) Scholars of Contract Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020) p 2Google Scholar.

2 M Lobban ‘Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674–1726)’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, p 74.

3 C Macmillan ‘Stephen Martin Leake (1826–93)’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, p 106.

4 It is intended that Chalmers will be included in a planned volume on commercial law: Goudkamp and Nolan, above n 1, p 3.

5 Ibid, p 21. Though focused on Cheshire and Fifoot, W Swain ‘Professor Geoffrey Cheshire (1886–1978) and Cecil Fifoot (1899–1975)’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, pp 230, 235–66 interestingly hints at what I independently believed to be the case, that Fifoot poses particular problems for any classification of this sort.

6 Goudkamp and Nolan, above n 1, p 3.

7 Ibid.

8 It is intended that Llewellyn will be included in a planned volume on commercial law: ibid.

9 Goudkamp and Nolan, above n 1, pp 2–5.

10 W Twining ‘Afterword: understanding contracts – a realist perspective’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, p 400.

11 Goudkamp and Nolan, above n 1, p 4 fn 11.

12 As the editors are aware (ibid, pp 3, 34–36), their wise decision to confine the selection to scholars of the common law gave rise to a particular problem in that the exclusion of Pothier and arguably Savigny meant the exclusion of scholars who of course had a great all but direct influence on the common law of contract, as is shown throughout the book.

13 Ibid, p 1.

14 Ibid, p 45.

15 Ibid.

16 Ibid, p 46.

17 Twining, above n 10, p 382.

18 Ibid, p 385.

19 Ibid, p 381.

20 Ibid, pp 387–389.

21 Ibid, p 403.

22 Ibid, p 381.

23 Ibid, p 385.

24 [1934] 2 KB 394 (KBD).

25 [1975] QB 326 (CA).

26 The current paragraph is a synopsis of the argument, supported by full referencing, in Campbell, D Contractual Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) ch 2CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

27 J Morgan ‘Professor Ian Roderick Macneil (1929–2010)’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, p 330.

28 G Klass ‘Professor Arthur Linton Corbin (1874–1967)’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, pp 223–24.

29 A Burrows ‘Professor Sir Guenter Treitel (1928–2019)’ in Goudkamp and Nolan (eds), above n 1, p 282.

30 Ibid, pp 291–94.

31 Ibid, p 285.

32 Ibid.

33 Treitel, GHDamages for breach of a CIF contract’ (1988) Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 458Google Scholar.

34 Burrows, above n 29, p 281.

35 Ibid, pp 280, 297 fn 27.

36 Treitel, GH Some Landmarks of Twentieth Century Contract Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

37 [1968] AC 58 (HL).