Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology, (Hardcover)

In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology, Professor Peter A. Alces confronts the leading interpretive theories of contract and demonstrates their doctrinal failures. Professor Alces presents the leading canonical cases that inform the extant theories of Contract law in both their historical and transactional contexts and argues that moral psychology provides a better explanation for the contract doctrine than do alternative comprehensive interpretive approaches.

Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology, (Hardcover) Author: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195371604 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 2011-04-07 Page Count: 332