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The Bargain Principle And Its Limits, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Bargain Principle And Its Limits, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Melvin A. Eisenberg
Explores the bargain principle in contract law and its limits in the U.S. Examination of the reasons that support the bargain principle in the context of half-completed bargains; Analysis of the limits that should be placed on the bargain principle under the doctrine of unconscionability; Evaluation of the reasons that support the bargain principle in the context of executory bargains.
Private Ordering Through Negotiation: Dispute-Settlement And Rulemaking, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Private Ordering Through Negotiation: Dispute-Settlement And Rulemaking, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Melvin A. Eisenberg
Negotiation is a vital instrument in the private ordering of affairs among disputants and among those who seek to work out rides to guide their future conduct in relation to one another. In this Article, Professor Eisenberg analyzes the way principles, niles, and precedents operate in private negotiation, both in the context of resolving present disputes and in the context of rulemaking to govern future conduct. Professor Eisenberg rejects the widely perceived dichotomy between norm-free negotiation and norm-bound adjudication, and suggests that norms play an integral role in the negotiation process, especially in the resolution of disputes. While granting that …