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Dismantling Democracy: Common Sense And The Contract Jurisprudence Of Frank Easterbrook, Deborah Post
Dismantling Democracy: Common Sense And The Contract Jurisprudence Of Frank Easterbrook, Deborah Post
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Unique Jurisprudence Of Letters Of Credit: Its Origin And Sources, Gao Xiang, Ross P. Buckley
The Unique Jurisprudence Of Letters Of Credit: Its Origin And Sources, Gao Xiang, Ross P. Buckley
San Diego International Law Journal
This Article seeks to illumine the legal nature of the letter of credit instrument, and catalogue the various sources of law and rules that can govern it; and, by doing so, render a service to those who must quickly come to grips with letter of credit law. The Article is in two parts. The first part examines the legal nature of the letter of credit by looking at its definition, operation, and history and by comparing it with negotiable instruments and contracts. The second part considers the rules, customs, and regulations governing letters of credit and introduces the two fundamental …
Critiques Of The Limits Of Freedom Of Contract: A Rejoinder, Michael J. Trebilcock
Critiques Of The Limits Of Freedom Of Contract: A Rejoinder, Michael J. Trebilcock
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This rejoinder to the foregoing critiques of the author's book, The Limits of Freedom of Contract, focuses on several themes: a) what range of contractually-related issues do courts possess the requisite institutional competence to address? b) whether problematic normative issues in contract law are amenable to rational analysis and at least provisional resolution, or are inherently indeterminate, contingent, and political? c) what the value of individual autonomy implies in terms of the type of transactions parties should be permitted to engage in? d) whether an "internal" rather than consequentialist theory of contract law is conceivable? and e) whether autonomy values …
The Idea Of A Public Basis Of Justification For Contract, Peter Benson
The Idea Of A Public Basis Of Justification For Contract, Peter Benson
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
The essay has two main objects. The first is to take up and to develop certain of the difficulties that Professor Trebilcock finds with autonomy and welfare-based theories of contract law. The essay reaches the conclusion that efficiency, autonomy, and welfare approaches suffer from fundamental and yet qualitatively different kinds of defects. Moreover, in the course of its critical examination of these theories, the essay introduces and makes explicit an ideal of justification which The Limits of Freedom of Contract only implicitly assumes-an ideal of justification which the essay, following the recent work of Rawls, calls a "public basis of …
Consideration And Estoppel: Problem And Panacea, Bruce Macdougall
Consideration And Estoppel: Problem And Panacea, Bruce Macdougall
Dalhousie Law Journal
In his book, The History of the Common Law of Contract, A.W.B. Simpson demonstrates that consideration originally seems to have meant the "matter of inducement" - the "why" of entering a promise.' He writes: "The essence of the doctrine of consideration, then, is the adoption by the common law of the idea that the legal effect of a promise should depend upon the factor or factors which motivated the promise. To decide whether a promise to do X is binding, you need to know why the promise was made."2 In modem terms, according to Simpson, a promise which lacks any …
Contract And Uncertainty: The Reformation Of An International Business Agreement, Joan A. Lipton
Contract And Uncertainty: The Reformation Of An International Business Agreement, Joan A. Lipton
Cardozo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Old Kontract Principles And Karl's New Kode: An Essay On The Jurisprudence Of Our New Commercial Law, Eugene F. Mooney
Old Kontract Principles And Karl's New Kode: An Essay On The Jurisprudence Of Our New Commercial Law, Eugene F. Mooney
Villanova Law Review
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