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Contract As Promise: A Theory Of Contractual Obligation, Michigan Law Review
Contract As Promise: A Theory Of Contractual Obligation, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation by Charles Fried
Challenging The Employment-At-Will Doctrine Through Modern Contract Theory, Clare Tully
Challenging The Employment-At-Will Doctrine Through Modern Contract Theory, Clare Tully
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note advocates an implied contract analysis that both satisfies contractual requirements and protects the reasonable expectations of employees and employers. Part I describes the various reliance interests that employees bring to their jobs, the employer inducements that cause this reliance, and the business benefits that accrue when employees rely upon these inducements. Part II examines in detail judicial reluctance to enforce either these reliance interests or employer promises as contract rights under the at-will doctrine. Part II also urges the increased use of modern contract theories such as promissory estoppel, quasi-contract, and implied contract to protect employee reliance interests …