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Reconstructing Contracts
Douglas G. Baird
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Description for Reconstructing Contracts
Hardback. Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes's set of principles, properly understood, continues to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: KJ; LAY; LAZ; LNCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 debated whether a set of coherent principles provide answers to such basic questions. Oliver Wendell Holmes put ... Read more
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 debated whether a set of coherent principles provide answers to such basic questions. Oliver Wendell Holmes put ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
172
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674072480
SKU
V9780674072480
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About Douglas G. Baird
Douglas G. Baird is Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Reviews for Reconstructing Contracts
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) ... Read more
Ian Ayres, Yale Law School Reconstructing Contracts is an excellent primer for students (and professors) ... Read more