Rethinking contract law and contract design

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Title:

Rethinking contract law and contract design

Author:

Goldberg, Victor P. author.

ISBN:

9781783471539

Personal Author:

Goldberg, Victor P. author.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Rethinking law

Rethinking law.

Contents:

Part I. Direct damages -- The reliance-flexibility tradeoff and remedies for breach -- Assessing damages : now or then? -- The lost-volume-seller problem and why Michael Jordan wasn't one -- Six pennies for your thoughts : Freund v. Washington Square Press -- Freund through the looking glass : Chodos v. West Publishing Co. -- Cleaning up Lake River -- Part II. Consequential damages -- The "tacit assumption" and consequential damages -- Buffalo's field of dreams : Kenford Company v. Erie County -- The Achilleas : forsaking foreseeability -- Part III. Excuse and changed circumstances -- Excuse doctrine : the Eisenberg uncertainty principle -- After frustration : three cheers for Chandler v. Webster -- A precedent built on sand : Nor Con v. Niagara Mohawk -- Part IV. Offer and acceptance -- Brown v. Cara, the Type II preliminary agreement, and the option to unbundle -- Traynor (Drennan) v. Hand (Baird) : much ado about (almost) nothing.

Subject Term:

Contracts.

Contracts -- United States.

Contracts -- Economic aspects.

Added Corporate Author:

Edward Elgar Publishing,

Copies:

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Summary

Contract law allows parties to set their own rules within constraints. It provides a set of default rules and if the parties do not like them, they can change them. Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design explores various long-standing contract doctrines, casting them in a new and compelling light by focusing on the economics of contractual relations.

Building upon and extending the arguments set forth in his acclaimed book Framing Contract Law , Goldberg revisits many of the seminal contract cases and places those decisions under close scrutiny, challenging readers, by means of forensic exploration of records, briefs, and other materials, to reconsider their conclusions. Split into four parts, the author examines direct damages, consequential damages, the excuses doctrines (including impossibility, impracticability and frustration), and offer and acceptance.

Asking the questions that often go unasked, and challenging the assumptions silently accepted by the majority, one of Goldberg's many insightful observations, and an underlying thread to the book, is that achieving an economic understanding of contract design will illuminate both contract doctrine and contract interpretation.

Written with clarity and poise, Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design is set to ignite plenty of debate amongst contract scholars and contract drafters, and provides the anvil upon which future generations of contract thinking can be forged. Contract scholars and students interested in exploring new perspectives on the topic will find this to be an essential read, as will contract lawyers and judges.