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Ipse Dixit: The Restatement (Second) Of Contracts And The Modern Development Of Contract Law, Gregory E. Maggs
Ipse Dixit: The Restatement (Second) Of Contracts And The Modern Development Of Contract Law, Gregory E. Maggs
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This article considers how courts have responded to the inclusion of six innovative rules in the Restatement (Second) of the Law of Contracts. It observes that most courts simply have deferred to the new rules. In the vast majority of cases, courts gave no reasons for their decisions to embrace the six rules. They simply cited them as they would cite a statute or code and did not question their authority. This practice raises an important normative question: Should courts follow the Restatement (Second) as readily as they currently do? The article concludes that, although some arguments counsel against deference …