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Hugh beale biography

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Hugh Beale

Hugh's research interests are in contract (including European and comparative contract law) and commercial law. He is now retired but continues to write on and occasionally to teach all three subjects. He is the General Editor of Chitty on Contracts, the leading practitioner work on English contract law, and contributes a number of chapters to the book.

Hugh Beale has been a Professor of Law at Warwick since 1987. Before that he taught at the University of Bristol, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Connecticut. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Amsterdam, North Carolina, Paris I and Utrecht. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford (2007-) and is a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College. For a number of years he has taught a short course on aspects of European Private Law at the University of Trento, Italy.

From 1987-1999 he was a member of the Commission on European Contract Law and with the founder of that group, Ole Lando, he edited the Principles of European Con

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Chitty on Contracts

English contract law textbook

Chitty on Contracts is one of the leading textbooks covering English contract law. The textbook is now in its 35th edition. The first editors were Joseph Chitty the Younger and Thompson Chitty, sons of Joseph Chitty.[1]

Contents

Volume I – General Principles

  • Part I – Introduction
  • Part 2 – Formation of Contract
    • Chapter 2 – The Agreement, Chapter 3 – Consideration, Chapter 4 – Form, Chapter 5 – Mistake, Chapter 6 – Misrepresentation, Chapter 7 – Duress and Undue Influence
  • Part 3 – Capacity of Parties
    • Chapter 8 – Personal Incapacity, Chapter 9 – Corporations and Unincorporated Associations, Chapter 10 – The Crown, Public Authorities and the European Union, Chapter 11 – Political Immunity and Incapacity
  • Part 4 – The Terms of Contract
    • Chapter 12 – Express Terms, Chapter 13 – Implied Terms, Chapter 14 – Exemption Clauses, Chapter 15 – Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts
  • Part 5 – Illegality and Public Policy:
    • Chapter 16 – Illegality and Public Policy
  • Part 6 – Joint Obligations, Thi
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    “CONTRACT LAW AND CONTRACT PRACTICE – BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LEGAL REASONING AND COMMERCIAL EXPECTATION by CATHERINE MITCHELL (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013, 308 pp., £50.00) In this book, Catherine Mitchell argues that the English law applying to commercial contracts leaves a significant gap between what the court will recognize as the parties’ legal entitlements and the parties’ ‘commercial expectations’ – as Stewart Macaulay put it, between the ‘paper deal’ and the ‘real deal’. In a very thorough and careful argument, drawing on a very wide range of sources, Mitchell proposes that commercial contract law – she deliberately excludes consumer and employment contracts from her analysis – should become more ‘relational’ … (more)

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    Hugh Beale, ‘Bridging the Gap: A Relational Approach to Contract Theory’. Journal of Law and Society, Volume 41, Issue 4, pages 641–651, December 2014.

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