Peter M Gerhart

Contract Law and Social Morality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise and readable guide to reasoning about the source and content of contractual obligations when disagreements arise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781107136762
• ISBN-10: 1107136768
• Artikelnr.: 60175833

Autorenporträt

Peter M. Gerhart is John Homer Kapp Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Gerhart may hold a record for teaching the most courses in the law school curriculum: twenty-five. His three books exploring the concept of an individual's responsibility to others cover Torts, Property, and Contracts, and implement a process of reasoning that is both deontic and consequential.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Understanding implied obligations: reasoning and methodology
Part I. Grounds for a Supplemental Approach: 1. Individuals and relationships
2. Authority's limits
3. Promises and obligations
4. Maximization and cooperation
Part II. Values-balancing Legal Reasoning: 5. The foundations of value-balancing legal reasoning
6. The scope of obligations
7. The source of obligations
8. Relationality redux: law on the ground and law on the books
Part III. Applications: 9. Legal enforceability: formation
10. Performance obligations: methodological issues
11. Performance obligations: the values-balancing approach
12. Consumer contracts and standard terms
13. Excused performance and risk allocation
14. Remedies
Conclusion.