Contract

A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory: Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 29-63

  Benson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barnett's defense of objective test for contract formation; Challenge to distinctiveness and coherence of contract; Charles Fried comprehensive and systematic autonomy based theory of contractual obligation; Contemporary contract theory a paradoxical situation; Distinction between misfeasance and nonfeasance; Efforts to ground contractual obligation on detrimental reliance; Four autonomy based theories autonomy theories viewing contract law as legal institution; Fuller's difficulty with expectation damages making promisor liable for mere nonfeasance; Paradoxical relation of contemporary contract theory to contract law; Paretian principle directing us to compare two states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886215159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320114.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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