Paul S. Davies and Magda Raczynska (eds.), Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms (Hart Publishing, 2020)を教材として、講読を行う。なお、本書の具体的内容としては、以下のような諸論文が含まれている。
1. Magda Raczynska and Paul S Davies, Freedom of Contract and Terms Affecting Freedoms
2. Robert Stevens, Binding Our Future Selves
3. Andrew Burrows, Anti-Oral Variation Clauses: Rock-Solid or Rocky?
4. Richard Calnan, Controlling Contractual Interpretation
5. Magda Raczynska, Good Faiths and Contract Terms
6. Paul S Davies, Excluding Good Faith and Restricting Discretion
7. Hugh Beale, The New Override of Bans on Assignment of Receivables
8. Louise Gullifer and Graham Penn, The Boundaries of a Borrower's Freedom to Act: Negative Covenants in Loan Agreements
9. Lucinda Miller, 'Ethical Clauses' in Global Value Chain Contracts: Exploring the Limits of Freedom of Contract
10. Sarah Green and Adam Sanitt, Smart Contracts
11. William Day, Disproportionate Penalties in Commercial Contracts
12. Jonathan Morgan, Opting for 'Documentary Fundamentalism': Respecting Party Choice for Entire Agreement and Non-Reliance Clauses
13. Niamh Connolly, Planning for Failure: Contract Design, Ineffective Bargains and Restitution
14. Nicholas J McBride, 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'? The Inevitable Conflict between Contract Law and Free Speech in Cyberspace
15. Catharine MacMillan, Private Law and Public Concerns: Non-Disclosure Agreements in English Contract Law
16. Richard Moorhead, Professional Ethics and NDAs: Contracts as Lies and Abuse?
17. Alex Mills, Choice of Court and Choice of Law Agreements: Freedom of Freedom of Contract
18. Uglješa Grušic and Manuel Penades Fons, Illegality in English Arbitration Law after Patel v Mirza
19. John Lowry and Rod Edmunds, The Reform of Insurance Warranties: Looking Beyond the Past
20. Melis Özdel, The Right to Delivery of Goods under Contracts of Carriage
21. Jacqueline Cook, The Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms – A Response
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