New Text on Canadian Contract Law

Hats off to John Swan who has just published Canadian Contract Law, the second contributionFor the first. to Canadian contract scholarship in treatise form this year.

The contents are:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Promises that Will Be Enforced
Chapter 3: Third-Party Beneficiary Contracts
Chapter 4: Making an Enforceable Contract
Chapter 5: The Requirement of Writing
Chapter 6: Remedies for Breach of Contract
Chapter 7: Performance, Non-Performance and Excuses
Chapter 8: Interpretation and Risk Allocation
Chapter 9: The Control of Contract Power
Chapter 10: Illegal Contracts

At 864 pages it’s really solid, though at $240, it’s not quite the bargain that John McCamus’s work referred to in the footnote is.