Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract on EtoBox?

The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract by F. H. Buckley, Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock, Timothy J. Muris is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract about?

Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In __The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract__ leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom. The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in North America, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and environmental regulation. Legal scholars predicted the “death of contract” and its replacement by regulation and reliance-based theories of liability. Instead, we have witnessed the reemergence of free bargaining norms. This revival can be attributed to the rise of law-and-economics, which laid bare the intellectual failure of anticontractarian theories. Scholars in this school note that consumers are not as helpless as they have been made out to be, and that intrusive legal rules meant ostensibly to help them often leave them worse off. Contract law principles have also been very robust in areas far afield from traditional contract law, and the essays in this volume consider how free bargaining rights might reasonably be extended in tort, property, land-use planning, bankruptcy, and divo

Who reads The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
F. H. Buckley, Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock, Timothy J. Muris
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9781283061728
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Law, Economics

More by F. H. Buckley, Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock, Timothy J. Muris

Browse all works by F. H. Buckley, Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock, Timothy J. Muris