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Precedent In Contract Cases And The Importance(?) Of The Whole Story, Robert A. Hillman
Precedent In Contract Cases And The Importance(?) Of The Whole Story, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
I am honored to contribute to this symposium in honor of Bill Whitford. I have been an admirer of Bill's work for the past 39 years, which encompasses my entire teaching career. Bill's scholarship on contracts and consumer law in his law review articles and in his casebook, Contracts: Law in Action, now in its third edition with Macaulay, Braucher, and Kidwell, confirms the importance of examining the non-legal forces at work in exchange transactions, the sometimes tenuous relationship between contract rules and legal decisions, the limitations of legal opinions, and the value of focusing on the relationship of contracting …