Book Chapter
David McLauchlan (2015). Liability under Hedley Byrne for 'pre-contract' negligent misrepresentation: a New Zealand perspective. The Law of Misstatements: 50 Years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller. (pp. 291-318) edited by Kit Barker, Ross Grantham and Warren Swain. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart.
Journal Articles
McLauchlan, David (2015). Repudiatory breach, prospective inability, and the golden victory. Journal of Business Law, 7, 530-550.
McLauchlan, David (2014). Construction and implication: in defence of Belize Telecom. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 203-240.
McLauchlan, David (2014). Refining rectification. Law Quarterly Review, 130, 83-111.
Brazier, Lauren and McLauchlan, David (2013). A failure to perform: but was it a breach?. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 25 (5), 1107-1121.
McLauchlan, David (2013). "Frustration" in the Court of Appeal. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 44 (3/4), 593-608.
McLauchlan, David (2013). More on implied terms. New Zealand Law Journal, 9, 346-349.
McLauchlan, David (2013). Contract damages: fundamental principle, fundamental disagreement. Canadian Business Law Journal, 46 (1), 89-94.
McLauchlan, David (2013). The uncertain basis of the postal acceptance rule?. Journal of Contract Law, 30 (1), 33-51.
McLauchlan, David and Lees, Matthew (2012). More construction controversy. Journal of Contract Law, 29 (2), 97-120.
McLauchlan, David (2012). The entire agreement clause: conclusive or a question of weight?. Law Quarterly Review, 128, 521-540.
McLauchlan, David (2012). The contract that neither party intends. Journal of Contract Law, 29, 26-46.
McLauchlan, David W. and Bigwood, Rick (2011). Lapse of offers due to changed circumstances: A contract conversation. Journal of Contract Law, 27 (3), 222-246.
McLauchlan, David (2011). The redundant reliance interest in contract damages. Law Quarterly Review, 127, 23-27.
McLauchlan, David (2011). A construction conundrum. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2011 (3), 428-448.
McLauchlan, David (2011). Common intention and contract interpretation. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2011 (1), 30-50.
McLauchlan, David and Lees, Matthew (2011). Construction controversy. Journal of Contract Law, 28 (2), 101-121.
McLauchlan, David W. (2010). Deleted words, prior negotiations and contract interpretation. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 24 (2), 277-301.
McLauchlan, David (2010). Contract interpretation in the Supreme Court: Easy case, hard law?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 16 (3), 229-267.
McLauchlan, David W. (2010). Commonsense principles of interpretation and rectification. Law Quarterly Review (126), 8-14.
McLauchlan, David (2009). Contract interpretation and subsequent conduct. New Zealand Law Journal, 125-127.
McLauchlan, David W. (2009). Plain Meaning and Commercial Construction: Has Australia Adopted the ICS Principles?. Journal of Contract Law, 25 (1), 7-38.
McLauchlan, David W. (2009). Contract Interpretation: What Is It About?. The Sydney Law Review, 31 (1), 5-51.
McLauchlan, David W. (2009). Interpretation and Rectification: Lord Hoffmann's Last Stand. New Zealand Law Review, 2009 (3), 431-453.
McLauchlan, David W. (2008). Timely payment but no settlement: A necessary requirement of notification?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly (14), 37-44.
McLauchlan, David (2008). The ‘drastic’ remedy of rectification for unilateral mistake. Law Quarterly Review, 124, 608-640.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2007). Some issues in the assessment of expectation damages. New Zealand Law Review, 2007, 563-629.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2007). Reliance damages for breach of contract. New Zealand Law Review, 2007, 417-457.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2006). Contract Formation, Contract Interpretation and Subsequent Consequences. University of Queensland Law Journal, 25 (1), 77-110.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2006). In Defence of a Role for Subsequent Conduct in Contract Interpretation. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 12, 30-49.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2006). Is there a reliance interest in contact damages?. New Zealand Law Journal, August, 254-257.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). Defying common sense in contract. New Zealand Law Journal, 2005 (9), 300-302.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). Parol evidence and contract formation. Law Quarterly Review, 121 (January), 9-16.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). Mistake of identity and contract formation. The Journal of Contract Law, 21 (1), 1-50.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). Objectivity in contract. University of Queensland Law Journal, 24 (2), 479-497.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). In defence of the fourth category of preliminary agreements. Journal of Contract Law, 21 (3), 286-305.
McLauchlan, David (2004). Contract Interpretation : A Return to Judicial Conservatism?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 10, 66-84.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2004). Interpretation and necessary implications. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 21 (2), 331-337.
McLauchlan, D. (2004). A contract conundrum?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 10 (3), 189-202.
McLauchlan, David W. (2003). The justiciability of an agreement to negotiate in good faith. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 20 (3), 265-298.
McLauchlan, David (2003). More on the Contractual Mistakes 'Code'. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 9, 51-65.
McLauchlan, David W. (2002). Intention, Incompleteness and Uncertainty in the New Zealand Court of Appeal. Journal of Contract Law, 18 (2), 153-179.
Conference Paper
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). The Agreement to Negotiate in Good Faith: A Non-Justifiable Contract?. Commercial Good Faith Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 September 2005. Wellington, New Zealand: Brookers Ltd.