A Research Agenda for Contract Law

Edited by Severine Saintier, Maggie Hemsworth and Timothy J. Dodsworth

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Abstract: This forward-thinking Research Agenda provides actionable solutions for maintaining the domestic and worldwide commercial relevance of English contract law. It divides barriers faced by the law into three key areas of concern: risk, sustainability and vulnerability.

Keywords: Consumer Contracts; Sustainability; Risk; Resilience; Vulnerability; Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035342570
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A Research Agenda for Contract Law: Introduction

Timothy J. Dodsworth, Maggie Hemsworth and Séverine Saintier

Ch 2 The Importance of Knowing what an Insurance Contract is

Peter MacDonald Eggers Kc

Ch 3 Digital Transformation in Insurance: The Contract-as-product Approach to Overcoming Information Overload

Margarida Lima Rego

Ch 4 The Future of Contract and the Allocation of Responsibility and Risk

Gerard McMeel Kc

Ch 5 The Future of Commercial Law Reforms: Paradigm Shift from Economic Efficiency to Eco-efficiency

Muriel Renaudin

Ch 6 Sustainable Circular Economy and Contract Law: Impacts, Gaps and Opportunities

Katrien Steenmans

Ch 7 Disrupting Anthropocentric Supply Chains to Recentre Nature

Ursula Davis, Lucy McCarthy, Anne Touboulic and and Errolinda Ward

Ch 8 Private Contracts and Public Problems: Understanding the Future of Contracting through Resilient Property Theory

Marc L. Roark

Ch 9 Equity, Consumers and Secret Commissions: The Developing Law

Derek Whayman

Ch 10 Negligent Misstatement, Antifragility, and the State

Richard Mullender

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