Poole's Casebook on Contract Law

Robert Merkin is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter and Special Counsel to Duncan Cotterill. He has taught the law of contract for many years. Robert has written a number of texts and articles on contract, insurance and arbitration. He is co-editor of the Lloyd's Law Reports. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) in 2015 and was awarded a higher doctorate by Cardiff University in the same year. In 2018 Rob became Honorary Life Presidentof the International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA). He has co-edited the book Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws, Routledge (2018).Séverine Saintier is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Exeter where she teaches contract, commercial, and French contract law. She has authored publications in the field of commercial agency contracts such as Commercial Agency Law: A Comparative Analysis, Ashgate, (2002) and (with J Scholes) Commercial Agents and the Law (2005), LLP. She has also written a number of articles for leading journals including the Journal of Business Law and the EuropeanReview of Private Law. Séverine is co-author with Robert of the privity chapter in Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws, Routledge (2018).