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A Theory of Contract Law

by Peter A. Alces

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In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory... Read more
In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights andMoral Psychology, Professor Peter A. Alces confronts the leading interpretive theories of contract and demonstrates their doctrinal failures. Professor Alces presents the leading canonical cases that inform the extant theories of Contract law in both their historical and transactional contexts andargues that moral psychology provides a better explanation for the contract doctrine than do alternative comprehensive interpretive approaches. Less

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File size6.3 X 9.29 X 1.1 in
Print pages348
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 7, 2011
Languageeng
ISBN9780199707591
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Peter A. Alces
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Peter A. Alces is the Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law at The College of William and Mary, where he has taught since 1990. He practiced with the commercial group of the Chicago office of Sidley & Au...

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