Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - ESSAYS IN COMMERCIAL LAW
ESSAYS IN COMMERCIAL LAW edited by Andrew Borrowdale, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury, Director, Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law Inc., and David Rowe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury. Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law Inc., Canterbury (N.Z.) (1991, xix and 271 pp.) Paperback NZ $45.
This collection of nine essays is the first publication by the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, which was set up at the University of Canterbury by Professor John Farrar in 1988, before he left academia to join a leading law firm. As the editors say in their Preface, the book is in part a tribute to the contribution which John Farrar has made to commercial law in New Zealand. The contributors are a mix of academics and practitioners, reflecting the bridge-building between the two which is one of the aims of the Centre.
The topics chosen for the essays are, in order, Competition, Contract, Insurance, Commercial Securities, Copyright, Sale of Goods, Fair Trading, Restitution and Banking. The main focus in some of the contributions is necessarily on the New Zealand scene—for
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