From: Jason Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca>
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 17/02/2015 14:40:56 UTC
Subject: ODG: Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law

Dear Colleagues:

 

Congratulations go out to ODGers Gregory Klass, George Letsas, and Prince Saprai on the publication of their edited collection Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law by OUP, see http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198713012.do.

 

Here is the table of contents:

 

Gregory Klass: Introduction

 

Part I: Theoretical Approaches

 1: Charles Fried: The Ambitions of Contract as Promise

 2: Randy E. Barnett: Contract is not Promise; Contract is Consent

 3: Joseph Raz: Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise?

 4: Daniel Owens: Does a Promise Transfer a Right?

 5: Dori Kimel: Personal Autonomy and Change of Mind in Promise and in Contract

 6: J.E. Penner: Promises, Agreements, and Contracts

 7: Charlie Webb: Contract as Fact and as Reason

 8: Liam Murphy: The Practice of Promise and Contract

 9: Avery W. Katz: Economic Foundations of Contract Law

 10: Aditi Bagchi: Distributive Justice and Contract

 

Part II: Doctrinal Analysis

 11: Margaret Jane Radin: 1. An Analytic Framework for Legal Evaluation of Boilerplate

 12: Lisa Bernstein: Merchant Law in a Modern Economy

 13: Daniel Markovits: Good Faith as Contract's Core Value

 14: Mindy Chen-Wishart: The Nature of Vitiating Factors in Contract Law

 15: George Letsas and Prince Saprai: Mitigation, Fairness and Contract Law

 16: Stephen A. Smith: Remedies for Breach of Contract: One Principle or Two?

 17: Gregory Klass: Efficient Breach

 

Happy Reading,

 
 
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