Rethinking contract law and contract design
By: Victor P. Goldberg, Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional law, Columbia University, USA
Contributors: Edward Elgar Publishing
Series: Rethinking law; Rethinking law series
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781783471539; 9781783471546
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Contracts; Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Direct damages; title: The reliance-flexibility tradeoff and remedies for breach; title: Assessing damages : now or then?; title: The lost-volume-seller problem and why Michael Jordan wasn't one; title: Six pennies for your thoughts : Freund v. Washington Square Press; title: Freund through the looking glass : Chodos v. West Publishing Co.; title: Cleaning up Lake River; title: Part II. Consequential damages; title: The "tacit assumption" and consequential damages; title: Buffalo's field of dreams : Kenford Company v. Erie County; title: The Achilleas : forsaking foreseeability; title: Part III. Excuse and changed circumstances; title: Excuse doctrine : the Eisenberg uncertainty principle; title: After frustration : three cheers for Chandler v. Webster; title: A precedent built on sand : Nor Con v. Niagara Mohawk; title: Part IV. Offer and acceptance; title: Brown v. Cara, the Type II preliminary agreement, and the option to unbundle; title: Traynor (Drennan) v. Hand (Baird) : much ado about (almost) nothing.