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A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology

By Peter A. Alces

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0195371607, 9780195371604
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1769739 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
348\349
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-11-16 00:26:27
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Description

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 and Moral 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 and argues that moral psychology provides a better explanation for the contract doctrine than do alternative comprehensive interpretive approaches.

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