Michael Furmston’s classic textbook has been reworked and brought completely up to date by James Devenney. New features include chapter overviews, in-focus sections, pause-for-thought exercises, highlighted key cases, end of chapter summaries and additional further reading. The scope of the book has also been expanded to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP); international sales contracts; interpretation; agency; and legislative proposals in the consumer context.
Supported by digital learning resources, including multiple choice questions, assessment advice and practice questions with feedback, this authoritative textbook is essential reading for students of commercial law.
The late Michael Furmston was formerly Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Professor of Law and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; formerly Dean of Law at Singapore Management University, Singapore; and formerly of the Centre for Commercial Law and Justice at Sunway University, Malaysia. He was also a Bencher of Gray’s Inn.
James Devenney is Head of the School of Law and Professor of Transnational Commercial Law at the University of Reading, UK. He is also Full Visiting Professor of Commercial Law at the UCD Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin, Ireland; Professor of Commercial Law at Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus; and Visiting Professor of Law, Dalian Maritime University, China.