Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law

If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law? This book proposes a Rawlsian theory of contract law. It argues that justice requires that we understand contract rules in terms of the idea of reasonabl...

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Main Author: Hevia, Martn̕. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 101
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4605-3
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Chapter I: Setting the Scene: Distributive Justice, Corrective Justice, and Monism in Political Philosophy and Contract Law -- Chapter III: Libertarianism and the Law of Contracts -- Chapter IV: The Division of Responsibility and Contract Law -- Chapter V: Explaining Contract Doctrine -- Chapter VI: The Objective Standard of Interaction in Contract Law: The Reasonable Person -- Chapter VII: Fuller, Fried and the Nature of Contractual Rights and Remedies -- Chapter VIII: Contracts and Third Parties -- Chapter IX: Material Non-Disclosure, Corrective Justice, and the Division of Responsibility -- Index. 
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