A theory of contract law : empirical insights and moral psychology /
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| Author / Creator: | Alces, Peter A. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011. |
| Description: | xv, 332 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8382634 |
Table of Contents:
- Premises (and equivocations)
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Failure of Normative Contract Theory
- A. The Landscape
- B. Human Agency
- C. Theory's Job
- D. An Alternative Sense of Theory
- Chapter 2. Constituents of Canonical Status
- A. Constitution of a Contract Canon
- B. Constituents of Canonical Status
- C. The Literary Analogy
- D. What We Read
- E. Why We Read
- F. The Canon Sets Limits
- G. Achieved Anxieties
- H. What We Are Looking For
- I. The Three Phases of Contract Doctrine
- Chapter 3. Contract Formation Doctrine
- A. Raffles v. Wichelhaus
- B. Lucy v. Zehmer
- C. Sherwood v. Walker
- D. Hawkins v. McGee
- E. Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.
- F. ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg
- G. Mills v. Wyman
- H. Hamer v. Sidway
- I. Allegheny College v. National Chautauqua County Bank
- J. Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon
- K. Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc.
- L. Dickinson v. Dodds
- Chapter 4. Theory of Contract Formation
- A. Offer and Acceptance: The Objective-Subjective Tension
- B. Mistake
- C. The Quid Pro Quo Requirement
- Chapter 5. Contract Performance Doctrine
- A. Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent
- B. Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.
- C. Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc.
- D. Taylor v. Caldwell and Krell v. Henry
- E. Lawrence v. Fox
- F. Alaska Packers' Association v. Domenico
- G. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co.
- Chapter 6. Theory of Contract Performance
- A. Unconscionability
- B. Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration
- C. Modification
- D. Third Parties
- E. The Parol Evidence Rule
- Chapter 7. Contract Enforcement Doctrine
- A. Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co.
- B. Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores
- C. Ricketts v. Scothorn
- D. Britton v. Turner
- E. Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.
- F. Hadley v. Baxendale
- G. Security Stove & Manufacturing Co. v. American Railway Express Co.
- Chapter 8. Theory of Contract Enforcement
- A. The Limits of Liability
- B. Estoppel-Based Liability
- Chapter 9. Toward an Empirical Morality
- A. The Limits of the Deontic-Consequentialist Dichotomy
- B. Moral Psychology
- C. The Limits of Normativity: Only So Much Doctrine Can Do
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
