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The Relationship Of Contractual Remedies To Political And Social Status: A Preliminary Inquiry, David S. Cohen
The Relationship Of Contractual Remedies To Political And Social Status: A Preliminary Inquiry, David S. Cohen
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This paper has, then, two major themes. In the first part I hope to elucidate the relationship of political, legal, and social status associated with land ownership to the unique legal remedies - specific performance and non-recovery of damages - which society created in respect to exchanges of land (and thus exchanges of status) for money. In the conclusion I examine the transformation of legal rules applied to agreements in which labour is exchanged for money. If, in fact, property rules in contract evolved in response to the political, legal, and social attributes of land ownership, then one may be …
Comment On The Plain English Movement, David S. Cohen
Comment On The Plain English Movement, David S. Cohen
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The purpose of this comment is to demonstrate that plain English contracts may carry more risks than benefits; the approach may, in fact, present a regressive stage in the evolution of consumer law.