Contract law in the construction industry context / Carl J. Circo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Circo, Carl J., 1949- author.

Series:

Spon research.

Spon research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction contracts--United States.

Construction contracts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This book chronicles how contract cases from the construction industry have influenced, solidified, refined and particularized U.S. contract law. The book's central claim is that the construction industry experience has helped to contextualize U.S. contract law and, therefore, has encouraged the common law to be more receptive to flexible legal standards and practices and less constrained by the relatively rigid rules that often characterize contract law. Other scholarly books analyze the themes, values, standards, and principles of contemporary contract law, but none capture how construction industry relationships and practices have influenced the common law of contracts. After providing an overview of construction law as a specialty of the practicing bar and as a field for scholarly inquiry, this book examines the construction industry cases that have most directly influenced contract law. It reviews how industry dispute patterns have caused courts to refine contract law principles or to adapt and modify other principles. Separate chapters explain the special roles that cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and in the lower federal courts have played in defining and distinguishing contract law in the construction industry. The final chapters assess implications the construction industry cases hold for contract theory writ large and for the future of contract law. This book is essential reading for legal scholars, construction law and contract law specialists, and those interested in how the construction industry has helped shape the U.S. legal system"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Practice and Study of Construction Law

The Construction Industry and Core Principles of Contract Law

Adaptations, Refinements, and Constraints in the Industry Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Federal Construction Contract Law Today

Contract Theory and the Construction Industry Cases

A Backward Glance and a Forward Glimpse

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000707700

1000707709

9780429326912

0429326912

OCLC:

1107162524

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429326912