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Theory And Anti-Theory In The Work Of Allan Farnsworth, Wayne R. Barnes Jul 2015

Theory And Anti-Theory In The Work Of Allan Farnsworth, Wayne R. Barnes

Wayne R. Barnes

When Allan Farnsworth passed away on January 31, 2005, the world lost a titan in the field of contracts. Farnsowrth has been described as “the great contemporary American scholar, and one of a handful of great world scholars, on the law of agreement...[He] was...perhaps The Authority on the law of contracts and much more.” Similarly, others have called him “the premiere figure in American Contracts law scholarship since the passing of Corbin and Dawson. The treatise and his half of the Second Restatement would be quite a contribution if there was nothing else.” Farnsworth’s casebook is perennially the most widely-adopted …


Theory And Anti-Theory In The Work Of Allan Farnsworth, Wayne R. Barnes Jul 2015

Theory And Anti-Theory In The Work Of Allan Farnsworth, Wayne R. Barnes

Wayne R. Barnes

When Allan Farnsworth passed away on January 31, 2005, the world lost a titan in the field of contracts. Farnsowrth has been described as “the great contemporary American scholar, and one of a handful of great world scholars, on the law of agreement...[He] was...perhaps The Authority on the law of contracts and much more.” Similarly, others have called him “the premiere figure in American Contracts law scholarship since the passing of Corbin and Dawson. The treatise and his half of the Second Restatement would be quite a contribution if there was nothing else.” Farnsworth’s casebook is perennially the most widely-adopted …