Contract: Cases and Materials, 12th Edition, continues to be a leading casebook for students of contract law in Australia. Significant new legislation and cases extracted in this edition include:

Construction Law in Australia has long been regarded as an authoritative yet accessible text on the law relating to building and construction in Australia and has been completely revised for this third edition.

Australian Family Provision Law is a current and fresh analysis of family provision law around Australia. It deals with one of the most highly litigated areas of succession law, one which continues to be characterised by state differences, despite the movement towards uniformity.

International Commercial Arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism has gained acceptance in most Asian countries and in the past few years has grown exponentially. The increase in arbitration cases is likely to continue against a backdrop of increasing cross border transactions and consequent cross border disputes. However, for practitioners new to this area of practice and students alike, there has been no authoritative text dealing with the Asia Pacific perspective of international arbitration to which they can turn.

This book takes a fresh approach to legal reasoning and its central place in legal education. Reference to the Australian and New Zealand law, this book focuses on how lawyers think and reason. It also considers how legal reasoning claims to be distinctive, while following practical reasoning techniques with policy and value elements.