Reconstructing Contracts
$126.62
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2013
Summary
Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. Formal bargains in the marketplace and casual promises in a social setting mark the two extremes, but many hard cases lie between. When gaps are left in a contract, how should courts fill them? What does it mean to say that an agreement is legally enforceable? If someone breaks a legally enforceable contract, what consequences follow?
For 150 years, legal scholars have…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674072480 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674072480 |
| Author: | Douglas G. Baird |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
Douglas Baird’s book is an excellent, non-technical introduction to the law and economics of contracts that is geared to the law student or even the non-economically oriented law professor who wants to be introduced to the field through what by consensus are the most famous cases. – Ian Ayres, Yale Law School
Reconstructing Contracts is an excellent primer for students (and professors) who are beginning to think seriously about the design of American contract law. I expect it to become a go-to text for first-year law students. – Edward R. Morrison, University of Chicago Law School
Douglas G. Baird
Douglas G. Baird is Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
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