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
Edited by Gregory Klass, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Law Centre, George Letsas, Reader in Philosophy of Law and Human
Rights, Faculty of Laws, University College London, and Prince
Saprai, Lecturer, Faculty of Laws, University College
Londo.Contributors: Aditi Bagchi is Associate Professor of Law at
Fordham University School of Law. Randy E. Barnett is Carmack
Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown University Law
Center. Lisa Bernstein is Wilson-Dickenson Professor of Law at the
University of Chicago Law School. Mindy
Chen-Wishart is Reader in Contract Law and Fellow and Tutor in Law
at
Merton College, University of Oxford, and Professor of Law at
the
National University of Singapore. Charles Fried is Beneficial
Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School. Avery W. Katz is
Milton Handler Professor of Law at Columbia University Law
School.Dori Kimel is Reader in Legal Philosophy and Fellow and
Tutor in Law at New College, University of Oxford. Gregory Klass is
Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. George Letsas
is Reader in Philosophy of Law and Human Rights at University
College London Faculty of Laws. Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi
Professor of Law at Yale Law School.Liam Murphy is Herbert
Peterfreund Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at New
York University School of Law. David Owens is Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Reading Department of
Philosophy.James E. Penner is Professor of Law at the National
University of Singapore. Margaret Jane Radin is Henry King Ransom
Professor
of Law at the University of Michigan School of Law, and
Distinguished Research Scholar, University of Toronto Faculty of
Law. Joseph
Raz is Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law at Columbia University
Law
School, and Research Professor at King's College London Dickson
Poon
School of Law. Prince Saprai is a Lecturer at University College
London Faculty of Laws. Stephen A. Smith is James McGill Professor
at McGill University Faculty of Law.Charlie Webb is an Associate
Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science
Department of Law.
...[T]his superb book makes an exceptionally valuable contribution
to the scholarship of this complex and fascinating area. No serious
law library should be without it.
*Greg Gordon, Edinburgh Law Review*
Anyone interested in theoretical discussions of contract law would
be well advised to read this book... the book offers a treasure of
scholarly material to satisfy a wide range of interests...
Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law is exemplary in the
consistently high quality of the pieces, from first to last.
*Brian Bix, Cambridge Law Journal*
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