Justice in Transactions
Title | Justice in Transactions PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Benson |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 625 |
Release | 2019-12-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0674237595 |
Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues that contract is best explained as a transfer of rights governed by a conception of justice. The result is a comprehensive theory of contract law congruent with Rawlsian liberalism.
The Theory of Contract Law
Title | The Theory of Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Benson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2001-02-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0521640385 |
Essays addressing a variety of issues in the theory and practice of contract law.
The Choice Theory of Contracts
Title | The Choice Theory of Contracts PDF eBook |
Author | Hanoch Dagan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2017-04-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107135982 |
The Choice Theory of Contracts is an engaging landmark that shows, for the first time, how freedom matters to contract.
Commercial Contract Law
Title | Commercial Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | Larry A. DiMatteo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 623 |
Release | 2013-01-31 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107028086 |
Part I. The Role of Consent: 1. Transatlantic perspectives: fundamental themes and debates Larry A. DiMatteo, Qi Zhou and Séverine Saintier 2. Competing theories of contract: an emerging consensus? Martin A. Hogg 3. Contracts, courts and the construction of consent Tom W. Joo 4. Are mortgage contracts promises? Curtis Bridgeman Part II. Normative Views of Contract: 5. Naturalistic contract Peter A. Alces 6. Contract in a networked world Roger Brownsword 7. Contract, transactions, and equity T.T. Arvind Part III. Contract Design and Good Faith: 8. Reasonability in contract design Nancy S. Kim 9. Managing change in uncertain times: relational view of good faith Zoe Ollerenshaw Part IV. Implied Terms and Interpretation: 10. Implied terms in English contract law Richard Austen-Baker 11. Contract interpretation: judicial rule, not party choice Juliet Kostritsky Part V. Policing Contracting Behavior: 12. The paradox of the French method of calculating the compensation of commercial agents and the importance of conceptualising the remedial scheme under Directive 86/653 Séverine Saintier 13. Unconscionability in American contract law Chuck Knapp 14. Unfair terms in comparative perspective: software contracts Jean Braucher 15. (D)CFR initiative and consumer unfair terms Mel Kenny Part VI. Misrepresentation, Breach and Remedies: 16. Remedies for misrepresentation: an integrated system David Capper 17. Re-examining damages for fraudulent misrepresentation James Devenney 18. Remedies for documentary breaches: English law and the CISG Djakhongir Saidov Part VII. Harmonizing Contract Law: 19. Harmonisation European contract law: default and mandatory rules Qi Zhou 20. Harmonization and its discontents: a critique of the transaction cost argument for a European contract law David Campbell and Roger Halson 21. Europeanisation of contract law and the proposed common European sales law Hector MacQueen 22. Harmonization of international sales law Larry A. DiMatteo.
Contract Theory
Title | Contract Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen A. Smith |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2004-03-25 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0191018813 |
This book is both an examination of, and a contribution to, our understanding of the theoretical foundations of the common law of contract. Focusing on contemporary debates in contract theory, Contract Theory aims to help readers better understand the nature and justification of the general idea of contractual obligation, as well as the nature and justification of the particular rules that make up the law of contract. The book is in three parts. Part I introduces the idea of 'contract theory', and presents a framework for identifying, classifying, and evaluating contract theories. Part II describes and evaluates the most important general theories of contract; examples include promissory theories, reliance-based theories, and economic theories. In Part III, the theoretical issues raised by the various specific doctrines that make up the law of contract (e.g., offer and acceptance, consideration, mistake, remedies, etc.) are examined in separate chapters. The legal focus of the book is the common law of the United Kingdom, but the theoretical literature discussed is international in origin; the arguments discussed are thus relevant to understanding the law of other common law jurisdictions and, in many instances, to understanding the law of civil law jurisdictions as well.
Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law
Title | Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | Martín Hevia |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 2012-09-12 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9400746040 |
If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law? This book proposes a Rawlsian theory of contract law. It argues that justice requires that we understand contract rules in terms of the idea of reasonable, terms of interaction – that is, terms that would be accepted by reasonable persons moved by a desire for a social world in which they, as free and equal, can cooperate with others on terms they accept. On that basis, the book explains the main doctrines of contract law, including those governing third parties, in both the Common Law and the Civil Law.
Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law
Title | Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | George Letsas |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0198713010 |
The 17 essays of this collection explore key philosophical questions underlying the institution of contract, and the philosophical issues arising in specific contract law doctrines, including contract formation, contract interpretation, unfair terms, the principle of good faith, defences, and remedies.