Buckley The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8012-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 477 Seiten

Original essays by prominent legal scholars on the recent intellectual revival of freedom of contract and the value of free bargaining; the essays will be gleaned from a series of conferences organized around areas where bargaining rights might be expande

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckley, F. H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Epstein, Richard

Posner, Eric A.

Trebilcock, Michael J.

Muris, Timothy J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Preface Introduction BUCKLEY F. H. I Free Bargaining and Formalism Contracts Small and Contract Large: Contract Law through the Lens of Laissez-Faire EPSTEIN RICHARD A. The Decline of Formality in Contract Law POSNER ERIC A. External Critiques of Laissez-Faire Contract Values TREBILCOCK MICHAEL J. In Defense of the Old Order MURIS TIMOTHY J. The Limits of Freedom of Contract in the Age of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism ALEXANDER GREGORY S. II Bargaining around Tort Law Courts and the Tort-Contract Boundary in Product Liability RUBIN PAUL H. Commodifying Liability COOTER ROBERT III Contracting for Land Use Law Zoning by Private Contract NELSON ROBERT H. Dealing with the NIMBY Problem FISCHEL WILLIAM A. Devolutionary Proposals and Contractarian Principles EAGLE STEVEN J. The (Limited) Ability of Urban Neighbors to Contract for the Provision of Local Public Goods ELLICKSON ROBERT C. IV Free Bargaining in Family Law A Contract Theory of Marriage SCOTT ELIZABETH S. SCOTT ROBERT E. Marriage as a Signal TREBILCOCK MICHAEL J. Family Law and Social Norms POSNER ERIC A. Contracting around No-Fault Divorce BRINIG MARGARET F. V Bargaining around Bankruptcy Reorganization Law Contracting for Bankruptcy Systems SCHWARTZ ALAN Free Contracting in Bankruptcy BUCKLEY F. H. Free Contracting in Bankruptcy at Home and Abroad RASMUSSEN ROBERT K. VI Choosing Law by Contract Contract and Jurisdictional Freedom KOBAYASHI BRUCE H. RIBSTEIN LARRY E. A Comment on Contract and Jurisdictional Competition KLAUSNER MICHAEL Choice of Law as a Precommitment Device MILLER GEOFFREY P. Corporate Law as the Paradigm for Contractual Choice of Law ROMANO ROBERTA Notes Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

F. H. Buckley is Professor of Law at the George Mason School of Law. He is the author of several books, including Corporations: Principles and Policies.