John Cartwright
Emeritus Professor of the Law of Contract
Other affiliations
Institute of European and Comparative Law
Biography
John Cartwright is Emeritus Professor of the Law of Contract, and Emeritus Student (Fellow) of Christ Church. He was Official Student (Fellow and Tutor) in Law at Christ Church from 1982 to 2018, and Professor of the Law of Contract in the University from 2008 to 2018. (He was Lecturer in Law from 1982 until 2004, then Reader in the Law of Contract from 2004 to 2008.) He is also a Solicitor (non-practising). From 2007 to 2017 he was Professor of Anglo-American Private Law at the University of Leiden. He taught at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (formerly Université Paris II) from 2002 to 2024, first as professeur invité, and from 2019 as professeur contractuel de droit privé: droit du common law. His research interests are in the fields of English and comparative private law, especially contract and land law. From 2015 to 2018 he was Director of the Oxford Law Faculty's Institute of European and Comparative Law, and he remains a Research Fellow of the Institute.
Publications
Cartwright J, ‘The English Law of Contract: Time for Review?’ (2022) 17(2) European Review of Private Law 155
Cartwright J, ‘Les nullités absolues: quel avenir? – Un regard étranger’ [2019] (2019/3) Revue Des Contrats 146
Cartwright J, ‘Harmonisation Projects: Lessons from the European Experience’ [2018] Latin American Legal Studies
Cartwright J, ‘Harmonisation Projects: Lessons from the European Experience? / Proyectos de armonización: ¿Lecciones de la experiencia europea?’ [2018] (2) Latin American Legal Studies 45292
Cartwright J, ‘Un regard anglais sur les forces et faiblesses du droit français des contrats’ [2015] (42248) Revue Des Contrats 691
Cartwright J, ‘Una introducción al Derecho de contratos inglés’ [2015] (13) Crónica Jurídica Hispalense 15
Cartwright J, ‘La preuve en droit continental et en common law - Le point sur la preuve en matière des contrats en droit anglais.’ (2013) 2013(5) La Semaine Juridique Notariale Et Immobilière 26
Cartwright J, ‘‘Choice is good.’ Really?’ (2011) 7(2) European Review of Contract Law 335
Cartwright J and Hesselink M, ‘Precontractual Liability in European Private Law Conclusions’ [2008] PRECONTRACTUAL LIABILITY IN EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW 449
Cartwright J and Hesselink M, ‘Precontractual Liability in European Private Law Introduction’ [2008] PRECONTRACTUAL LIABILITY IN EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW 1
Cartwright J, Formation and Variation of Contracts (Sweet & Maxwell 2021)
Cartwright J, Formation and Variation of Contracts: First Supplement to the Second Edition (Sweet & Maxwell Ltd 2020)
Beatson J, Burrows A and Cartwright J, Anson’s Law of Contract (OUP 2020)
Cartwright J, Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-disclosure (Sweet & Maxwell 2019)
Cartwright J, Introducción al Derecho Inglés de los Contratos (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi 2019)
Cartwright J, Formation and Variation of Contracts (Sweet & Maxwell 2018)
Cartwright J, Fauvarque-Cosson B and Whittaker S, La réécriture du code civil: Le droit français des contrats après la réforme de 2016 (Société de législation comparée 2018)
Cartwright J, Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure (Sweet & Maxwell 2016)
Cartwright J, Contract Law: An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer (Hart Publishing 2016)
Cartwright J, Formation and Variation of Contracts (Sweet & Maxwell 2014)
Cartwright J, Contract Law: An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer, 2nd edn (Hart Publishing 2013)
Cartwright J, Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure, 3rd edn (Sweet & Maxwell 2012)
Cartwright J and Burn E, Cheshire and Burn’s Modern Law of Real Property, 18th edition (Oxford University Press 2011)
Burrows A, Beatson J and Cartwright J, Anson’s Law of Contract (OUP 2010)
Cartwright J and H Burn E, Maudsley & Burn\’s Land Law Cases & Materials, 9th edition (OUP 2009)
Cartwright J, Contract Law: An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer (Hart Publishing 2007)
Cartwright J, Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure (Sweet & Maxwell 2007) 682
Cartwright J and Burn E, Cheshire and Burn\’s Modern Law of Real Property, 17th edition (OUP 2006) 1212
Cartwright J, Misrepresentation (Sweet and Maxwell 2002)
Cartwright J, ‘The Creation and Transfer of Property Rights by Contract in English Law’ in J Cartwright and AM López y López (eds.), Property and Contract: Comparative Reflections on English Law and Spanish Law (Hart 2021)
Cartwright J, ‘The Importance of Comparing in the Commercial Law of Contract’ in S Lindskog and others (eds.), Festskrift till Jan Kleineman (Jure Förlag AB 2021)
Cartwright J, ‘Misleading Silence and Deceit’ in E Bant and J Paterson (eds.), Misleading Silence (Hart Publishing 2020)
Cartwright J, ‘Freedom of Contract, Judicial Control and Remedies for Non-performance: Comparative Reflections from English Law’, Liberté, Justesse, Autorité: Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur Laurent Aynès (LGDJ 2019)
Cartwright J, ‘Information Obligations and Disinformation of Consumers: English Law Report’ in G Straetmans (ed.), Information Obligations and Disinformation of Consumers (Springer 2019)
Cartwright J and Whittaker S, ‘Introduction to the English Translation’ in F Ancel and B Fauvarque-Cosson (eds.), Le Nouveau Droit des Contrats: Guide Bilingue à l’Usage des Praticiens (LGDJ 2019)
Cartwright J, ‘Insights from outside the common law’, Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda for Teaching (2019)
Cartwright J, ‘""Commercial"" Contracts: Do they exist in English Law?’ in L Carvajal Arenas and A Toso Milos (eds.), Estudios de Derecho Comercial (Thomson Reuters Chile 2018)
Cartwright J, ‘L’introduction au droit en Angleterre’ in R Cabrillac (ed.), Qu’est-ce qu’une introduction au droit? (Dalloz 2017)
Cartwright J, ‘Defects of the Contract under Articles 27 to 37 of the Principles of Latin American Contract Law’ in R Momberg and S Vogenauer (eds.), The Future of Contract Law in Latin America (Hart Publishing 2017)
Cartwright J, ‘Redelijkheid en billijkheid: a view from English law’ in CG Breedveld-de Voogd and others (eds.), Core Concepts in the Dutch Civil Code. Continuously in Motion. (Wolters Kluwer 2016)
Cartwright J, ‘’Authenticity’ and ’Authentic Instruments’: The Perspective of English Law’ in L Aynès (ed.), L’authenticité (La documentation Française 2013)
Cartwright J and Schmidt-Kessel M, ‘Defects in Consent: Mistake, Fraud, Threats, Unfair Exploitation’ in G Dannemann and S Vogenauer (eds.), The Common European Sales Law in Context (Oxford University Press 2013)
Cartwright J, ‘La réception linguistique de l’avant-projet de réforme: traduire l’avant-projet en anglais’ in P Catala (ed.), L’art de traduction: L’accueil international de l’avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations (Editions Panthéon-Assas 2011)
Cartwright J, ‘Defects of Consent in Contract Law’ in AS Hartkamp and others (eds.), Towards a European Civil Code, 4th edn (Kluwer Law International 2011)
Cartwright J, ‘Liability in Tort for Pre-Contractual Non-Disclosure’ in A Burrows and E Peel (eds.), Contract Formation and Parties (OUP 2010)
Cartwright J and Hesselink M, ‘Introduction’, Precontractual Liability in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press 2009)
Cartwright J, ‘The Fiction of the ’Reasonable Man’’ in AG Castermans and others (eds.), Ex Libris Hans Nieuwenhuis (Kluwer 2009)
Cartwright J, ‘L’obligation de négocier? Un domaine de concurrence entre droit anglais et droit français des contrats.’ in J du Bois de Gaudusson and F Ferrand (eds.), La Concurrence des Systèmes Juridiques (Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille 2008)
Cartwright J, ‘Analyse comparée de la responsabilité précontractuelle dans les droits européens’ in O Deshayes (ed.), L’avant-contrat: Actualité du processus de formation des contrats (PUF, collection CEPRISCA 2008)
Cartwright J, ‘Protecting Legitimate Expectations and Estoppel: English Law’ in B Fauvarque-Cosson (ed.), La Confiance Légitime et l’Estoppel (Société de Législation Comparée 2007)
Cartwright J, ‘Excluding Liability for Misrepresentation’ in A Burrows and E Peel (eds.), Contract Terms (Oxford University Press 2007)
Cartwright J, ‘The rise and fall of mistake in the English law of contract’, Mistake, Fraud and Duties to Inform in European Contract Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2005)
Cartwright J, ‘Case study (English law)’ in R Sefton-Green (ed.), Mistake, Fraud and Duties to Inform in European Contract Law: Common Core of European Contract Law (CUP 2005)
Cartwright J, ‘Formality and Informality in Property and Contract’ in J Getzler (ed.), Rationalizing Property, Equity and Trusts: Essays in Honour of Edward Burn (Lexis Nexis 2003)
Cartwright J, ‘Compensatory Damages: Some Central Issues of Assessment’ in A Burrows and E Peel (eds.), Commercial Remedies: Current Issues and Problems (OUP 2003)
Cartwright J, ‘Defects of Consent and Security of Contract: French and English Law Compared’ in P Birks and A Pretto (eds.), Themes in Comparative Law in Honour of Bernard Rudden (OUP 2002)
Cartwright J and López y López A, Property and Contract: Comparative Reflections on English Law and Spanish Law (Hart 2021)
Cartwright J, Vogenauer S and Whittaker S, Reforming the French Law of Obligations (Hart Publishing 2009)
Cartwright J, Fauvarque-Cosson B and Whittaker S, ‘The Law of Contract, the General Regime of Obligations, and Proof of Obligations (English translation of new provisions in the French Civil Code)’ (Ministry of Justice, French Republic, 1 January 2016)
Cartwright J and Whittaker S, ‘Proposals for Reform of the Law of Obligations and the Law of Prescription; English translation of Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription (2005)’ (1 January 2007)
Cartwright J, ‘EQUITY’S CONNIVANCE IN THE EVASION OF LEGAL FORMALITIES’, LAW & EQUITY: APPROACHES IN ROMAN LAW AND COMMON LAW (2014)
Cartwright J, ‘Unilateral Mistake in the English Courts: Reasserting the Traditional Approach’ (2022) 2009 Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 226 (case-note)
Cartwright J, ‘Cour de Cass, Ass Plén, 6 décembre 2004: English case note’ (2006) 14 European Review of Private Law 789 (case-note)
Cartwright J, ‘Cour de Cass, 26.11.2003 - ’Perte de Chance’: English case note’ (2005) 13 European Review of Private Law 455 (case-note)
Cartwright J, ‘Common Mistake in Common Law and in Equity’ (2002) 118 Law Quarterly Review 196 (case-note)
Cartwright J, ‘Member of Commission on ’Authenticité’ established by the Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, France’ (2000)
Cartwright J, ‘Law of Contract: Recent Developments and Current Issues’ (2000) Ministry of Justice Judicial College
Cartwright J, ‘Academic member’ (2000)