In a context of changing times and current debate, this highly topical book discusses the aims, methods and organisation of legal scholarship. Jan Smits assesses the recent turn away from doctrinal research towards a more empirical and theoretical way of legal investigation and offers a fresh persp[...]

This innovative and accessible text offers a straightforward and clear introduction to the law of contract suitable for use across geographical boundaries. Unlike most other texts - which tend either to introduce students to the national contract law of their own country, or else to offer global [...]