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BOOK REVIEW - GOOD FAITH AND FAULT IN CONTRACT LAW
GOOD FAITH AND FAULT IN CONTRACT LAW. Edited by Jack Beatson, Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Daniel Friedmann, Dean, School of Law, College of Management, and Professor of Law, University of Tel-Aviv. Clarendon Press, Oxford (hardback 1995; paperback 1998) xlvii and 522 pp., plus 9 pp. Index. Hardback £55; paperback £17.99.
This book contains 19 essays, most of which were delivered at a colloquium held at Merton College, Oxford. The contributors were drawn from near and far; the former mostly from the Oxford orbit; the latter from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel and the United States. All are leading scholars and their essays seek to examine the concept of good faith and fault in the law of contract.
People are now undoubtedly living longer than they did in the last century. The same may be true of the average contract. Contractual obligations frequently extend over a considerable period of time. As well as other features, this longevity is emphasized by the so-called “relational” school of contract scholarship to demonstrate the unsuitability of the paradigm contract contemplated by classical contract law (characterized by Ian MacNeil as a “quick in quick out” contract) as a model
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