The essays take damages in the widest (perhaps even controversial) sense of the word, with a number of papers tackling the border territory where ‘restitutionary damages’ may represent an alternative to reliance and expectation measures. Their focus is on a traditionally somewhat neglected field, but one of domestic and international significance to which increasing attention has rightly been addressed in recent years. This collection of essays is one result of a conference in June 2007 in Birmingham University’s attractive Business School, part of which I had the pleasure of chairing. Typeset by Forewords, Oxford Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall Hart Publishing, 16C Worcester Place, Oxford, OX1 2JW Telephone: +44 (0)1865 517530 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 510710 E-mail: Website: British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data Available ISBN: 978-1-84113-741-4 Enquiries concerning reproduction which may not be covered by the above should be addressed to Hart Publishing at the address below.

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Published in North America (US and Canada) by Hart Publishing c/o International Specialized Book Services 920 NE 58th Avenue, Suite 300 Portland, OR 97213-3786 USA Tel: +1 5 or toll-free: (1) 8 Fax: +1 5 E-mail: Website: © The editors and contributors severally, 2008 The editors and contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. A special emphasis is placed on the examination of the role of gain-based damages, the meaning and definition of loss, the recoverability of damages for injury to business reputation, the recoverability of legal fees, the rules of mitigation and foreseeability, the dilemma between ‘abstract’ and ‘concrete’ approaches to the calculation of damages, and the relationship between changes in monetary value and the assessment of damages.Ĭontract Damages Domestic and International Perspectives Edited by Djakhongir Saidov and Ralph Cunnington The general issues addressed in the collection include the purpose and scope of damages, the measures of damages, recoverability of losses, methods of limiting damages and assessment of damages. The book aims to inform readers of current developments, problems, trends and debates surrounding contract damages and reflects an ongoing dialogue on damages among representatives of common law, civil law, mixed and transnational legal systems. The essays, written by leading experts in the area, raise important and topical issues relating to the law of contract damages from both theoretical and practical perspectives. CONTRACT DAMAGES This book is a collection of essays examining the remedy of contract damages in the common law and under the international contract law instruments such as the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.

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