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The Legal Infrastructure Of Markets: The Role Of Contract And Property Law Essay, Tamar Frankel
The Legal Infrastructure Of Markets: The Role Of Contract And Property Law Essay, Tamar Frankel
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Markets are social institutions that facilitate exchange transactions. Therefore, they require a regime of freedom to exchange-a contract regime. Markets can be made more efficient by reducing the transaction and information costs for market actors. Such a reduction can be effected by standardizing the products exchanged, the terms of the transactions, and the nature of the rights transferred. Information costs can be reduced by publicizing the transactions' and by using the services of intermediaries
Corrective Justice For Moderns, George P. Fletcher
Corrective Justice For Moderns, George P. Fletcher
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Once when I was reading a Soviet commentary on criminal procedure, a friend noticed the cyrillic title and asked whether the Russian book was fiction or nonfiction. My initial tendency was to give the straight response, "Nonfiction, of course," but then I thought about what I was reading and began to laugh. Now if someone asked me whether Jules Coleman's Risks and Wrongs was fiction or nonfiction, I would want to give the straight reply. Thinking about the book, however, I hesitate. And I do not laugh.
It is becoming more and more difficult these days to distinguish fiction from …
Feminism And Disciplinarity: The Curl Of The Petals, Carol Sanger
Feminism And Disciplinarity: The Curl Of The Petals, Carol Sanger
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In this Symposium, feminism has been invited to take a place alongside such well-established disciplines as history, philosophy, and economics in a consolidated exploration of interdisciplinary approaches to law. While sincerely extended – the feminist entry is not the only one that women are writing – and generously unbounded as to scope, ... the invitation raises what for many is a prior question: Is feminism a discipline at all?
As the feminist delegate to this interdisciplinary Symposium, I have therefore taken as my initial task consideration of the issue implicit in the invitation: feminism's credentials as a discipline. I explore …