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 invit?I> at the University of Paris II (Panth?-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).
Publications
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2013
J Cartwright and M Schmidt-Kessel, 'Defects in Consent: Mistake, Fraud, Threats, Unfair Exploitation' in Gerhard Dannemann and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), The Common European Sales Law in Context (Oxford University Press 2013) [...]
Comparison of English law on defects in consent in the formation of a contract with German law and European private law (the proposed Common European Sales Law and the Draft Common Frame of Reference).
ISBN: 9780199678907
J Cartwright, 'La preuve en droit continental et en common law - Le point sur la preuve en matière des contrats en droit anglais.' (2013) La Semaine Juridique Notariale et Immobilière 26 [...]
Abstract: There is no "hierarchy of proof" in English law as there is in French law. English law does not use authentic acts; the deed is a private document. Although there are only a few exceptions to the basic rule that no formalities of writing are required for the creation of a contract, nor for its enforceability, yet where the contract is in writing the written document has great significance, particularly in the light of the principles of (objective) interpretation of the contract.
Discussion of the significance of writing in English law of contract. Article is in French.
ISBN: 0242-5785
2012
J Cartwright, Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure, 3rd edn (Sweet & Maxwell 2012) [...]
Third edition of work originally published in 2002 (second edition 2007).
ISBN: 9780414049550
2011
J Cartwright and EH Burn, Cheshire and Burn's Modern Law of Real Property, 18th edition (Oxford University Press 2011) [...]
New edition of established text on Land Law
ISBN: 978-0-19-959340-8
J Cartwright, 'Defects of Consent in Contract Law' in AS Hartkamp, MW Hesselink, EH Hondius, C Mak, CE du Perron (eds), Towards a European Civil Code, 4th edn (Kluwer Law International 2011) [...]
Comparative discussion of defects of consent (mistake, misrepresentation, fraud, duress, etc) in English, French and German contract law and under the Draft Common Frame of Reference.
ISBN: 978-90-411-3357-1
Interests
Teaching: Comparative Private Law; Contract; Land Law; Roman Law; Tort
Research: Contract, Tort, Property Law, Comparative Law
Other details
Academic Director of Undergraduate Exchange Programmes
Correspondence address:
Christ Church
Oxford OX1 1DP
