Contract Law Minimalism

A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law

By:

Jonathan Morgan

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Hardback

Series:

Law in Context

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Commercial contract law is in every sense optional given the choice between legal systems and law and arbitration. Its 'doctrines' are in fact virtually all default rules. Contract Law Minimalism advances the thesis that commercial parties prefer a minimalist law that sets out to enforce what they have decided - but does nothing else. The limited capacity of the legal process is the key to this 'minimalist' stance. This book considers evidence that such minimalism is indeed what commercial parties choose to govern their transactions. It critically engages with alternative schools of thought, that call for active regulation of contracts to promote either economic efficiency or the trust and co-operation necessary for 'relational contracting'. The book also necessarily argues against the view that private law should be understood non-instrumentally (whether through promissory morality, corrective justice, taxonomic rationality, or otherwise). It sketches a restatement of English contract law in line with the thesis.

Author Biography:

Jonathan Morgan is Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge. He was previously Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Catherine's College, Oxford and Fellow and Director of Studies at Christ's College, Cambridge. He has for many years also taught English law at Warsaw University and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. His teaching and research interests range across the law of obligations and public law.

Release date Australia

November 7th, 2013

Author

Jonathan Morgan

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

314

Series

Law in Context

Dimensions

170x244x19

ISBN-13

9781107021075

Product ID

21233324

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