This book addresses aspects of international law relating to petroleum contracts, examining oil and gas agreements between states and private companies and their intersection with rules of international law. It provides detailed and insightful coverage of the current practice as well as commentary and analysis based on the authors' extensive experience. The book covers topics such as the nature of international petroleum contracts, petroleum agreements as state contracts, issues of contract stability, the development of bilateral investment treaties, natural resource cycles, political risks and the specific petroleum policies of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Monetary Fund and the International Development Association. This is a timely and comprehensive book on this important area of law.

A concise revision aid for students studying degree or diploma courses in law. The book covers the broad topic areas referred to in the Priestley 11 prescription for Contracts that are found in the contract law syllabuses of accredited law schools. The second edition incorporates recent decisions of Australian courts impacting upon the law of contract. This new edition also includes a comprehensive case list and an introductory chapter detailing key definitions and concepts.

Save over 20% off the recommended retail price when you combine Richard Stone's The Modern Law of Contract (9780415481373) 8th edition, Richard Stone and Ralph Cunnington's Text, Cases & Materials on Contract Law (9781859419137) 1st edition and James Devenney and Howard Johnson's Contract, Tort and Restitution Statutes 2010-2011 (9780415582377).

Ong on Rescission is Professor Denis SK Ong's fifth treatise in the field of equity. With its rigorous, yet accessible, approach to this complex area of law Ong on Rescission is a perfect supplement to his earlier acclaimed works: Trusts Law in Australia (now in its 4th edition), Ong on Equity, Ong on Specific Performance and Ong on Subrogation. The text offers a thorough study of rescission ab initio both at common law and in equity. As in his earlier works, the book offers a succinct exposition of all the key relevant principles of law, facilitated by a careful, and on occasion critical, analysis of all the leading authorities. To assist the reader, the essential passages of judgments under consideration are reproduced.