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The Death Of Contract
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Author : Grant Gilmore
language : en
Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 1974
The Death Of Contract written by Grant Gilmore and has been published by Columbus : Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Law categories.
The Death Of Contract The Ages Of American Law
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Author : Grant Gilmore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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The Death Of Contracts
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Author : Franklin G. Snyder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
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Contract law is dying. Admittedly, given earlier erroneous reports of its demise, including (most prominently) that of Grant Gilmore in 1974, we might evoke memories of the boy who cried “Wolf!” But if we remember that story, the boy did eventually turn out to be right. The wolf eventually showed up. In this paper, written for a law review symposium on “Contract Law in 2025,” we look at contract law and adjudication simply as a technology -- what Jacques Ellul called a “technique” -- that is used by particular societies to solve particular problems at particular times. We do not think that this idea is controversial. While many legal theorists have argued over the years for some sort of deeper status for contract and other forms of private law, Karl Llewellyn and other Legal Realists emphasized the practical connection between contract and business practice, and that idea still largely dominates the field today. In this paper, we look at contract law and adjudication with a very wide lens to examine how the various pieces of interrelated contract technique correspond with the realities of the modern contracting world. The question for us is not whether particular parts of contract law are good or bad, but is the system working? And, more important, is it likely to work in anything like its current form in the world of the future? We examine what we call both the structural and the rule techniques of contract law. The former is the body of judicial institutions and systems that process breach of contract claims, while the latter is the body of what is usually called “doctrine” on which decisions are based. In this sense, the court system is the hardware on which contract law “software” runs. We find that the hardware (the judicial system) is built for a world in which transportation is easy but communication at a distance are hard, where legal costs are low, where decisions are rendered quickly, and where there is little competition in the business of resolving disputes. The software (contract doctrine) is rooted in a world in which it is difficult to tell commercial transactions from other interpersonal relationships; contracts are formed by individual haggling and reflect the unique individual understandings of the two parties; most contracting parties are sloppy and pay little attention to the deals they strike; lawyers are not usually involved in preparing contracts; language used by contracting parties varies sharply from place to place and is often different from that used by the general population; writings are expensive to produce and used rarely; parties do not usually need exactly what they bargained for; courts are the only available public mechanisms for dealing with fraud and unfair practices in transactions; and there are no good tools for making reliable estimates of gains and losses. In other words, as we show, contract technique is designed for a world that looks exactly like the world that developed it, the United States in the period from 1860 to 1960. It bears very little resemblance to the world of today, which is dominated by mass-market standard-form written contracts crafted by skilled lawyers, sophisticated modern contracting practices, globalization, prohibitively expensive and time-consuming litigation processes, and consumers and other contracting parties who are protected by a host of legislative and regulatory tools much better adapted than contract law to root out bad practices. This bad technological fit is a major reason why vast chunks of what used to be contract law (e.g., products liability, consumer law, employment law, insurance law, pension benefit law, etc.) have been carved off for more efficient treatment under other schemes, and why parties at both the high end (global industries) and the low end (individual consumers) of the legal system have been fleeing the courts in increasingly large waves. The changes that have occurred in the world to date, and which have resulted in this mismatch between technology and problems, are only going to accelerate. These processes will make the kind of contract rules embodied in common-law appellate opinions and reflected in the Restatements even less and less relevant. They have already lost much of their utility for the vast mass of contracting done in the U.S. and around the world. The bits that are likely to remain useful -- and even grow more useful in a standardized age -- will increasingly find themselves incorporated as principles in other bodies of law. The detritus that remains will serve not as helpful tools for furthering private ordering, but as hidden perils that will serve mainly to harm the unwary and drive up the costs of litigation.
The Death Of Contract Together With The Ages Of American Law Grant Gilmore
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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Symposium
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Author : Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Law
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Symposium written by Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Law and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Contracts categories.
Book Review
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Author : Arthur Taylor Von Mehren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Gilmore
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Author : Morton J. Horwitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Contract S Revenge
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Author : Ryan Martins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Contract S Revenge written by Ryan Martins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
A generation ago observers confidently predicted the death of contract and the triumph of tort. But contract has risen from the dead. Contracts waiving tort rights have become ubiquitous in the American marketplace. We survey the history and doctrine of exculpatory clauses in a wide variety of consumer contracts. We find that mid-twentieth-century skepticism about waivers has given way to a new age of increased waiver enforcement. The story of waiver enforcement, we conclude, is of a piece with the resurgence of free contract and market thinking in the 1980s and 1990s, a process we call “contract's revenge.”
Comparative Contract Law
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Author : Pier Giuseppe Monateri
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-28
Comparative Contract Law written by Pier Giuseppe Monateri and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-28 with Law categories.
This comprehensive Handbook offers a thoughtful survey of contract theories, issues and cases in order to reassess the field's present vision of contract law. It engages a critical search for the fault lines which cross traditions of thought and globalized landscapes. Comparative Contract Law is built around four main groups of insights, including: the genealogies of contractual theoretical thinking; the contentious relationship between private governance and normative regulations; the competing styles used to stage contract law; and the concurring opinions expressed within the domain of other disciplines, such as literature and political theory. The chapters in the book tease out the tensions between a global context and local frameworks as well as the movable thresholds between canonical expressions and heterodox constructions.
The Oxford Introductions To U S Law
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Author : Randy E. Barnett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-21
The Oxford Introductions To U S Law written by Randy E. Barnett and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-21 with Law categories.
Written by a leading expert in the field, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts provides students with ready access to the basic doctrines of contract law, the story behind their evolution, and the rationales for their continued existence. An engaging book that allows students to grasp the "big picture" of contract law, it is organized around the principle that lies at the heart of contracts: consent. Beginning with the premise of "consent," the book provides a cohesive framework in which to understand the various aspects of contract law.