The mainstream treatment of quasi-contracts and implied contracts illustrates doctrine's
techniques of separation and conflation. Since at least the mid-nineteenth century, the …

Scholars have produced a wide variety of theoretical work on contract law. This is the first
book to compile it, to present it coherently, to evaluate it, and to supply numerous references …

Many of the problem areas in the law of contracts stem from the historical fact that the law of
contracts has been fashioned out of material that does not fit together logically. Some jurists …

Contract law generally is based on the principle that courts will enforce agreements into
which the parties freely entered.'If parties comply with contract formalities, 2 the law typically …

During its classical period, American contract law had three prominent characteristics: nearly
unlimited freedom to choose the contents of a contract, a clear separation from the law of tort …

* Professor of Law, Cornell University. I thank Greg Alexander, Robert Denicola, George
Hay, John Siliciano, and Robert Summers for their helpful suggestions. 1. By" contract …

" Contract law is a category within legal practice (and legal education), although there are
many occasions in which contract law has significant overlaps with other categories, or …

Jean Braucher* Legal theorists in recent years have deployed" contract" as a central
concept to explain more and more topics. These theorists seek to replace" regulation" with" …

Using an interdisciplinary approach involving economics, sociology, and law, this book
explores fundamental questions about the purposes and effects of legal regulation of …

Lon Fuller's" Consideration and Form" originated a scheme for the analysis of contract
questions based on multiple formal and substantive considerations, with" the principle of …