Abstract:
Today, Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire and Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot seem to us to be figures from another world. After all, they were born during the reign of Queen Victoria. Both men were involved in a particular academic milieu, termed by Noel Annan as a ‘golden-age’. They wrote on a number of subjects. Cheshire is perhaps best known for his work on private international law and Fifoot for his writing on legal history. In 1945 they co-authored, The Law of Contracts, which has become an iconic. It represents a particular way of thinking about contract law which had its roots in the nineteenth century. The work was also important because versions appeared in Australia and New Zealand where it was important as both jurisdictions began to develop their own body of contract law which diverged from England.
