150 Years of the Indian Contract Act 1872

In 2022, the Indian Contract Act will turn hundred and fifty years old. Yet, there is a striking dearth of critical academic scholarship on the Act. This project attempts to address this. It aims to produce, in collaboration with academics and practitioners from around the world, an authoritative commentary on Indian contract law.

To enable the authors to obtain feedback from fellow contributors and the editors on their draft chapters, online sessions were held on (i) 15 August 2020, (ii) 22 August 2020 and (iii) 12 September 2020. These sessions were intended to allow authors to engage with chapters other than their own, and ensure consistency and uniformity of the chapters.

The editors of the proposed commentary are Dr. K.V. Krishnaprasad (One Essex Court), Professor Shivprasad Swaminathan (Jindal Global Law School, Associate Professor Umakanth Varottil (NUS Law) and Dr. V. Niranjan (One Essex Court).

This project is supported by Jindal Global Law School, The University of Melbourne and Centre for Asian Legal Studies, NUS Law.