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  title info:
    title: Foundational principles of contract law
  name:
    name part: Eisenberg, Melvin Aron
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: contracts.
  genre: Contracts
  genre: Contracts.
  genre: Contrats.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This one-volume treatise sets out the principles and rules of contract law, placing an emphasis on what the principles and rules of contract law should be, based on policy, morality, and experience. This book offers a unique approach to contract law from a critical perspective, as an organic, dynamic subject.
  table of contents: Cover; Series; Foundational Principles of Contract Law; Copyright; Dedication; Summary Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Part One Theories of Contract Law, Four Underlying Principles of Contract Law, and the Transformation of Contract Law from Classical to Modern; 1. The Objective and Coverage of this Book; Doctrinal and Social Propositions; Social and Critical Morality; Terminology; and the Tenor of the Footnote Apparatus; I. Objective and Coverage; A. Objective; B. Coverage; II. Terminology; A. Doctrinal Propositions
  table of contents: B. Social PropositionsC. Social and Critical Morality; D. Principles and Rules; E. Classical Contract Law; F. Williston; G. Corbin; H. Commodity; I. Expression; J. Pronouns; III. The Tenor of the Footnote Apparatus; 2. Theories of Contract Law; I. Formalist Theories; A. Creating New Exceptions; B. Reconstruing; C. Transformation; D. Overruling; E. The Status of Formalism; II. Interpretive Theories; III. Normative Theories; 3. Four Underlying Principles of Contract Law and the Foundational Contract-Law Standard; 4. The Transformation of Contract Law from Classical to Modern
  table of contents: Part Two The Enforceability of Promises5. Bargain Promises and the Bargain Principle; I. An Introduction to Bargain Promises; II. Structural Agreements; III. Three Doctrinal Exceptions to the Bargain Principle; A. The Legal-Duty Rule; 1. The Insignificant Hold-Up Issue; B. Surrender of or Forbearance to Assert a Claim That Turns Out to Be Invalid; C. The Doctrine of Mutuality and the Illusory-Promise Rule; 6. The Theory of Efficient Breach; I. The Overbidder Paradigm; II. The Factual Predicates of the Theory; A. Inefficiently Remaking Contracts
  table of contents: B. Inefficiently Providing Disincentives for PlanningC. Weakening the Contracting System; III. The Loss Paradigm; IV. Conclusion; Part Three Moral Elements in Contract Law; 7. The Unconscionability Principle; I. Introduction; II. The Role of Markets; III. The Role of Moral Fault; IV. Specific Unconscionability Norms; A. Distress; B. Price-Gouging; C. Transactional Incapacity; D. Unfair Persuasion; E. Unfair Surprise; F. Sales at Above-Market Prices and the Exploitation of Price-Ignorance; 1. One-Off Sellers; 2. Door-to-Door Sellers; 3. Extension of Credit; G. Substantive Unconscionability
  table of contents: H. Two Statutes8. Donative Promises; I. Simple Donative Promises; II. Formal Donative Promises-Promises under Seal; III. Promises Based on a Moral Obligation to Compensate for a Prior Benefit; IV. Promises to Give to Social-Service Institutions; V. The Role of Reliance; VI. Measuring Reliance Damages in a Donative-Promise Context; VII. The Life of Reliance; 9. The Duty to Rescue in Contract Law; I. The No-Duty Rule; II. Offer and Acceptance; A. Silence as Acceptance; B. Late Acceptance; C. Unilateral Contracts; III. Performance; A. The Duty to Warn a Party That It May Be about to Breach
  note: Melvin A. Eisenberg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Contracts
  subject:
    topic: Contracts
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Contracts
  subject:
    topic: Contrats
  subject:
    topic: Contrats
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: contracts
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
  subject:
    topic: Contracts
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
  subject:
    topic: Law
  classification: KF889.85 .E425 2018
  classification: 346.7302/2
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180817
    record change date: 20260319175922.6
    record identifier: in00005716269
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng