The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-2333-4 (ISBN)
Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.
The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in North America, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and environmental regulation. Legal scholars predicted the “death of contract” and its replacement by regulation and reliance-based theories of liability. Instead, we have witnessed the reemergence of free bargaining norms. This revival can be attributed to the rise of law-and-economics, which laid bare the intellectual failure of anticontractarian theories. Scholars in this school note that consumers are not as helpless as they have been made out to be, and that intrusive legal rules meant ostensibly to help them often leave them worse off. Contract law principles have also been very robust in areas far afield from traditional contract law, and the essays in this volume consider how free bargaining rights might reasonably be extended in tort, property, land-use planning, bankruptcy, and divorce and family law.
This book will be of particular interest to legal scholars and specialists in contract law. Economics and public policy planners will also be challenged by its novel arguments.Contributors. Gregory S. Alexander, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley, Robert Cooter, Steven J. Eagle, Robert C. Ellickson, Richard A. Epstein, William A. Fischel, Michael Klausner, Bruce H. Kobayashi, Geoffrey P. Miller, Timothy J. Muris, Robert H. Nelson, Eric A. Posner, Robert K. Rasmussen, Larry E. Ribstein, Roberta Romano, Paul H. Rubin, Alan Schwartz, Elizabeth S. Scott, Robert E. Scott, Michael J. Trebilcock
F. H. Buckley is Professor of Law at the George Mason School of Law. He is the author of several books, including Corporations: Principles and Policies.
Preface
Introduction
I. Free Bargaining and Formalism
Contracts Small and Large: Contract Law through the Lens of Laissez-Faire / Richard A. Epstein
The Decline of Formality in Contract Law / Eric A. Posner
External Critiques of Laissez-Faire Contract Values / Michael Trebilcock
In Defense of the Old Order / Timothy J. Muris
The Limits of Freedom of Contract in the Age of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism / Gregory S. Alexander
II. Bargaining around Tort Law
Courts and the Tort-Contract Boundary in Product Liability / Paul H. Rubin
Commodifying Liability / Robert Cooter
III. Contracting for Land Use Law
Zoning by Private Contract / Robert H. Nelson
Dealing with the NIMBY Problem / William A. Fischel
Devolutionary Proposals and Contractarian Principles / Steven J. Eagle
The (Limited) Ability of Urban Neighbors to Contract for the Provision of Local Public Goods / Robert C. Ellickson
IV. Free Bargaining in Family Law
A Contract Theory of Marriage / Elizabeth S. Scott and Robert E. Scott
Marriage as a Signal / Michael J. Trebilcock
Family Law and Social Norms / Eric A. Posner
Contracting around No-Fault Divorce / Margaret F. Brinig
V. Bargaining Around Bankruptcy Reorganization Law
Contracting for Bankruptcy Systems / Alan Schwartz
Free Contracting in Bankruptcy / F.H. Buckley
Free Contracting in Bankruptcy at Home and Abroad / Robert K. Rasmussen
VI. Choosing Law by Contract
Contract and Jurisdictional Freedom / Bruce H. Kobayashi and Larry E. Ribstein
A Comment on Contract and Jurisdictional Competition / Michael Klausner
Choice of Law as a Precommitment Device / Geoffrey P. Miller
Corporate Law as the Paradigm for Contractual Choice of Law / Robert Romano
Notes
Contributors
Index
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 1175 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-2333-8 / 0822323338 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-2333-4 / 9780822323334 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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