Philosophical foundations of contract law
Philosophical foundations of contract law
- New York Oxford University Press 2014
- viii,391p. 26 cm
"The chapters that constitute this volume were first presented at the inaugural Bentham House conference at University College London in 2013"--Acknowledgments (page v).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to Philosophical foundations of contract law / Gregory Klass -- I. Theoretical approaches -- The ambitions of contract as promise / Charles Fried -- Contract is not promise; contract is consent / Randy E. Barnett -- Is there a reason to keep a promise? / Joseph Raz -- Does a promise transfer a right? / David Owens -- Personal autonomy and change of mind in promise and in contract / Dori Kimel -- Promises, agreements, and contracts / James Penner -- Contract as fact and as reason / Charlie Webb -- The practice of promise and contract / Liam Murphy -- Economic foundations of contract law / Avery W. Katz -- Distributive justice and contract / Aditi Bagchi -- II. Doctrinal analyses -- An analytical framework for legal evaluation of boilerplate / Margaret Jane Radin -- Merchant law in a modern economy / Lisa Bernstein -- Good faith as contract's core value / Daniel Markovits -- The nature of vitiating factors in contract law / Mindy Chen-Wishart -- Mitigation, fairness, and contract law / George Letsas & Prince Saprai -- Remedies for breach of contract : one principle or two? / Stephen A. Smith -- Efficient breach / Gregory Klass.
9780198713012
2014942230
GBB483859 bnb
016821617 Uk
K840 / .P453 2014
346.201 / PH-
"The chapters that constitute this volume were first presented at the inaugural Bentham House conference at University College London in 2013"--Acknowledgments (page v).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to Philosophical foundations of contract law / Gregory Klass -- I. Theoretical approaches -- The ambitions of contract as promise / Charles Fried -- Contract is not promise; contract is consent / Randy E. Barnett -- Is there a reason to keep a promise? / Joseph Raz -- Does a promise transfer a right? / David Owens -- Personal autonomy and change of mind in promise and in contract / Dori Kimel -- Promises, agreements, and contracts / James Penner -- Contract as fact and as reason / Charlie Webb -- The practice of promise and contract / Liam Murphy -- Economic foundations of contract law / Avery W. Katz -- Distributive justice and contract / Aditi Bagchi -- II. Doctrinal analyses -- An analytical framework for legal evaluation of boilerplate / Margaret Jane Radin -- Merchant law in a modern economy / Lisa Bernstein -- Good faith as contract's core value / Daniel Markovits -- The nature of vitiating factors in contract law / Mindy Chen-Wishart -- Mitigation, fairness, and contract law / George Letsas & Prince Saprai -- Remedies for breach of contract : one principle or two? / Stephen A. Smith -- Efficient breach / Gregory Klass.
9780198713012
2014942230
GBB483859 bnb
016821617 Uk
K840 / .P453 2014
346.201 / PH-