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Master contractual interpretation with ten essential principles and current case law.

Principles of Contractual Interpretation, 3rd Edition

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    24 June 2026

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Summary

Written with the busy practitioner in mind, Principles of Contractual Interpretation offers a concise and authoritative guide to this complex area of commercial law. The authors distil the rules for constructing and interpreting contracts into ten core principles, each explored in its own chapter and illustrated with case law that shows how the principle operates in practice.

Now in its third edition, the book has been thoroughly revised to reflect eight years of developments in case …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198897170
ISBN-10:0198897170
Author:Richard Calnan, Paul S. Davies
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Edition:3rd
Release Date:24 June 2026
Weight:438g
Dimensions:15mm x 157mm x 233mm
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Principles of Contractual Interpretation, 3rd Edition by Richard Calnan - ISBN: 9780198897170
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About The Author

Richard Calnan

Richard Calnan

Richard Calnan is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in London and an Honorary Professor at University College London. His practice involves a broad range of corporate and financial transactions, restructurings, and insolvencies. He has written a number of books, articles, and chapters on commercial law, including Proprietary Rights and Insolvency (2nd edn OUP 2016) and Principles of Statutory Interpretation (OUP 2023).

Paul S. Davies

Paul S. Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London and a Barrister at Essex Court Chambers. He was previously a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Paul has also worked at the Law Commission. In 2020, Paul was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law, which ‘recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising’.

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