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Justice in Transactions : A Theory of Contract Law / Peter Benson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674241985
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.002/201 23
LOC classification:
  • K840
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE. PRINCIPLES -- A. Formation -- Introduction: With What Should an Account of Contract Formation Begin? -- 1. Consideration: Its Meaning, Role, and Consequences -- 2. Offer and Acceptance, the Objective Test, and Contractual Intent -- 3. Implication -- B. Fairness -- Introduction -- 4. The Paradigm of Contractual Fairness: The Principle of Unconscionability -- 5. Three Other Doctrines about Fair Terms -- 6. Fairness and Assent in Standard Form Contracts -- C. Enforcement -- Introduction -- 7. Fundamental Ideas -- 8. Unity and Diversity in the Law of Contract Remedies -- 9. Expectation Damages and Contract Theory -- PART TWO. THEORY -- 10. Contract as a Transfer of Ownership -- 11. A Moral Basis for Contract as Transfer -- 12. The Stability of Contract as Transfer -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues that contract is best explained as a transfer of rights governed by a conception of justice. The result is a comprehensive theory of contract law congruent with Rawlsian liberalism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE. PRINCIPLES -- A. Formation -- Introduction: With What Should an Account of Contract Formation Begin? -- 1. Consideration: Its Meaning, Role, and Consequences -- 2. Offer and Acceptance, the Objective Test, and Contractual Intent -- 3. Implication -- B. Fairness -- Introduction -- 4. The Paradigm of Contractual Fairness: The Principle of Unconscionability -- 5. Three Other Doctrines about Fair Terms -- 6. Fairness and Assent in Standard Form Contracts -- C. Enforcement -- Introduction -- 7. Fundamental Ideas -- 8. Unity and Diversity in the Law of Contract Remedies -- 9. Expectation Damages and Contract Theory -- PART TWO. THEORY -- 10. Contract as a Transfer of Ownership -- 11. A Moral Basis for Contract as Transfer -- 12. The Stability of Contract as Transfer -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues that contract is best explained as a transfer of rights governed by a conception of justice. The result is a comprehensive theory of contract law congruent with Rawlsian liberalism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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