This book is a comparative look at the law of commercial contracts as constructed by the US and UK legal systems. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide works of original scholarship focusing on the current debates and trends from the two dominant common law systems.

Part I. The Role of Consent: 1. Transatlantic perspectives: fundamental themes and debates Larry A. DiMatteo, Qi Zhou and Severine Saintier; 2. Competing theories of contract: an emerging consensus? Martin A. Hogg; 3. Contracts, courts and the construction of consent Tom W. Joo; 4. Are mortgage contracts promises? Curtis Bridgeman; Part II. Normative Views of Contract: 5. Naturalistic contract Peter A. Alces; 6. Contract in a networked world Roger Brownsword; 7. Contract, transactions, and equity T. T. Arvind; Part III. Contract Design and Good Faith: 8. Reasonability in contract design Nancy S. Kim; 9. Managing change in uncertain times: relational view of good faith Zoe Ollerenshaw; Part IV. Implied Terms and Interpretation: 10. Implied terms in English contract law Richard Austen-Baker; 11. Contract interpretation: judicial rule, not party choice Juliet Kostritsky; Part V. Policing Contracting Behavior: 12. The paradox of the French method of calculating the compensation of commercial agents and the importance of conceptualising the remedial scheme under Directive 86/653 Severine Saintier; 13. Unconscionability in American contract law Chuck Knapp; 14. Unfair terms in comparative perspective: software contracts Jean Braucher; 15. (D)CFR initiative and consumer unfair terms Mel Kenny; Part VI. Misrepresentation, Breach and Remedies: 16. Remedies for misrepresentation: an integrated system David Capper; 17. Re-examining damages for fraudulent misrepresentation James Devenney; 18. Remedies for documentary breaches: English law and the CISG Djakhongir Saidov; Part VII. Harmonizing Contract Law: 19. Harmonisation European contract law: default and mandatory rules Qi Zhou; 20. Harmonization and its discontents: a critique of the transaction cost argument for a European contract law David Campbell and Roger Halson; 21. Europeanisation of contract law and the proposed common European sales law Hector MacQueen; 22. Harmonization of international sales law Larry A. DiMatteo.