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	text:  larger  smaller		John Cartwright Professor of the Law of Contract  John Cartwright has been Official Student (Fellow and Tutor) in Law at Christ Church since 1982, and Professor of the Law of Contract in the University since 2008. (He was Lecturer in Law from 1982 until 2004, then Reader in the Law of Contract from 2004 to 2008.) He is also a Solicitor. In 2007 he was appointed as Professor of Anglo-American Private Law at the University of Leiden and for a number of years he has been professeur invité at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). His research interests are in the fields of English and comparative private law, especially contract and land law. He teaches the undergraduate courses on Contract, Comparative Law (English/French Law of Contract), Land Law, Tort and Roman Law, and the BCL/MJur course on European Private Law (Contract). Subject groups : Comparative Private Law : Contract : Land Law : Roman Law : Tort All | Recent | Selected Publications    sorted by selection | sort by year J Cartwright, Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure (Sweet & Maxwell 2007) Abstract: Second edition, updated and expanded to cover mistake as well as misrepresentation and non-disclosure ISBN: 0 421 87720 0 J Cartwright and EH Burn, Cheshire and Burn\'s Modern Law of Real Property, 17th edition (OUP 2006) Abstract: Revised and re-structured edition of established text on Land Law. ISBN: 0199285330 J Cartwright and E H Burn, Maudsley & Burn\'s Land Law Cases & Materials, 9th edition (OUP 2009) Abstract: Case book on Land Law ISBN: 9780199226177 J Cartwright and M Hesselink, Precontractual Liability in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press 2008) Abstract: A volume within the Common Core of European Private Law: a comparative study of the legal nature of the precontractual phase and the liability which may follow a break-off of precontractual negotiations. The study comprises specialist reports from 16 national legal systems, and other perspectives, with Editors' introduction and conclusions. ISBN: 9780521516013 J Cartwright, Contract Law: An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer (Hart Publishing 2007) Abstract: Book designed to introduce the lawyer who is trained in a civil law jurisdiction to the common law, and to the English law of contract. ISBN: 978 1 84113 577 9 J Cartwright, S Vogenauer and S Whittaker (eds), Reforming the French Law of Obligations (Hart Publishing 2009) Abstract: Edited volume of comparative reflections on the Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription, based on papers from colloquium held in March 2007. Articles by J. Cartwright at pp. 51-70 (‘Negotiation and Renegotiation: An English Perspective’), pp. 359-380 (‘Reforming the French Law of Prescription: An English Perspective’); and pp. 409-411 (Summary of discussions); jointly with S. Whittaker at pp. 425-444 (‘Translating the Avant-projet de réforme’) and translation of the Avant-projet into English (pp. 479-915, odd numbered pages). Whole volume edited by J. Cartwright, S. Vogenauer and S. Whittaker ISBN: 9781841138053 J Cartwright, 'The English Law of Contract: Time for Review?' (2009) 17 European Review of Private Law 155-175 Abstract: Discussion of aspects of the English law of contract which are in need of reform, and the mechanisms by which reform can be achieved. Revised text of Inaugural Lecture delivered on 7 October 2008 in acceptance of the Chair of Anglo-American Private Law at the University of Leiden. ISBN: 0928-9801 Correspondence address: Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP Link to Christ Church Link to University email/phone directory in new window