Contract Law Minimalism: A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law

ISBN-13: 9781107021075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 314 str.

Jonathan Morgan

Opis

Critically examines moral-promissory, economic and socio-legal perspectives on contract law, arguing that it should be formal and minimalistic by design.

Recenzje

'… [an] admirable contribution to this fascinating debate.' Catherine Mitchell, International Company and Commercial Law Review

Spis treści

Part I. Clearing the Ground: 1. Does instrumentalism 'fit' contract law?; 2. Justifying the instrumental approach; Part II. Social Sciences and the Law of Contract: 3. A critique of neoclassical law and economics; 4. Relational contracting: trust, business and law; 5. Extra-legal norms: the irrelevance of the law (of contract)?; Part III. Contract Law Minimalism: 6. Defining contract law minimalism, or the 'new formalism'; 7. Against regulation through contract law; 8. The limited capacity of contract law; 9. What business wants: evidence from the 'markets for law'; 10. A formalist restatement of commercial contract law.