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The fall and rise of freedom of contract / edited by F.H. Buckley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty of contract--United States.
- Liberty of contract.
- Torts--United States.
- Torts.
- Domestic relations--United States.
- Domestic relations.
- Bankruptcy--United States.
- Bankruptcy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (479 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Original essays by prominent legal scholars on the recent intellectual revival of freedom of contract and the value of free bargaining; the essays will be gleaned from a series of conferences organized around areas where bargaining rights might be expande
- Contents:
- Introduction (F. H. BUCKLEY)
- Free Bargaining and Formalism
- Contracts Small and Contract 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 J. 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)
- Bargaining around Tort Law Courts and the Tort-Contract Boundary in Product Liability (PAUL H. RUBIN)
- Commodifying Liability (ROBERT COOTER)
- 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)
- Free Bargaining in Family Law A Contract Theory of Marriage (ELIZABETH S. SCOTT)
- Marriage as a Signal (MICHAEL J. TREBILCOCK)
- Family Law and Social Norms (ERIC A. POSNER) Contracting around No-Fault Divorce (MARGARET F. BRINIG)
- 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)
- Choosing Law by Contract Contract and Jurisdictional Freedom (BRUCE H. KOBAYASHI)
- 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 (ROBERTA ROMANO)
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-456) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06172-4
- 9786613061720
- 0-8223-8012-9
- OCLC:
- 213455265
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