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New Rules For Promissory Fraud, Gregory Klass, Ian Ayres
New Rules For Promissory Fraud, Gregory Klass, Ian Ayres
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article summarizes the authors’ recommended reforms to the law of promissory fraud. These recommendations are presented as a Draft Prestatement of the Law of Insincere Promising. The basic propositions of the Prestatement are taken, with some modification, from the authors’ book, Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent (2005). This article adds extensive comments, in the style of the Restatements, and a prose introduction identifying three reforms we deem most important. First, courts should drop their insistence that every promise represents an intent to perform, and treat that representation instead as a default. Second, courts faced with claims of …
Promissory Fraud Without Breach, Gregory Klass, Ian Ayres
Promissory Fraud Without Breach, Gregory Klass, Ian Ayres
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Article, in keeping with the theme of this Symposium, explores the possibility of promissory fraud liability where there is no breach of contract. It is well known that mere breach of contract is not sufficient to make out a claim of promissory fraud. This rule makes eminent sense, for a promisor who initially intended to perform may have later changed her mind. Here we pose the converse question: is it possible to have promissory fraud liability without a breach?