This book is the first attempt to establish a collaborative and interdisciplinary field of economics and legal studies. It is designed to help readers - advanced undergraduate and graduate students, but also fellow scholars who are interested in interdisciplinarity - to think th…
There are three legal frameworks applicable to international investments: the laws of the host state and the investor's country, the contract between the host state and the investor, and the rules of international investment law. This book assesses how these three bodies of law …
Promoting a {u2018}learning-by-doing{u2019} approach to comparative contract law and comparative methodology, this updated second edition of Comparative Contract Law updates the first true student reader on the subject. Bringing together extracts from legislation and court pract…
Getting in : contract formation -- Facing limits : unenforceable bargains -- Getting out : excuses and termination -- Paying up : remedies -- Rewinding : restitution and unjust enrichment -- Writing it down : interpretation, parol, frauds -- Performing : duties, modification, go…
"Contract Law Minimalism advances the thesis that commercial parties prefer a minimalist law that sets out to enforce what they have decided - but does nothing else. The limited capacity of the legal process is the key to this 'minimalist' stance. This book considers evidence th…
In contemporary society, the maintenance of social order relies upon the existence of a state that creates and enforces the written regulations by which its citizens live. In emerging societies like those of early medieval Europe, however, the question of order was much more com…
What kind of social relation do contracts create, or, more precisely, how do contracts cover social interaction? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this work explores fundamental questions about contracts and legal regulation.
This book seeks to provide a moral basis for contract law that can not only make sense of its main doctrines in their own terms but also bring out the distinct conception of justice that actually animates them. The author shows in detail that this conception of justice is purely…