Contract Law (Second Edition)

Author: Li Yongjun
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book has a certain theoretical depth and is suitable for graduate students of law and readers with a certain level of legal theoretical literacy to study the law of contracts. The book is divided into seventeen chapters, primarily elaborating on legal issues such as contracts, contract systems, contract freedom, contractual relationships, contract validity, the effectiveness of contracts, standardized contracts, pathological contracts and their legal remedies, the transfer of contractual rights and obligations, third-party contracts, defects in the basis of transactions and contract validity, the preservation of contractual claims, defenses in contract performance, breach of contract and remedies, and the future of contract law. Key viewpoints of the book: "Contract freedom is the soul and life of contract law." "The core of contract freedom is: no one can be bound by obligations they did not agree to." "If an obligation does not arise from the free will of the parties, it cannot impose legal binding force on them, and the law should provide remedies for defects in consent." "Contract freedom reflects the principles of natural law, and therefore it should also include the principles of justice and fairness." "The source of contract validity lies in the exchange of materialized wills, which is the fundamental autonomy of the contracting parties. The legal protection of the reasonable expectations of the parties is the extrinsic reason for contract validity."