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Contract law minimalism: a formalist restatement of commercial contract law

By: Morgan, JonathanMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Law in ContextPublication details: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2013. ISBN: 9781139108171Subject(s): Law: General Interest | Law | Contract Law | Private Law | JurisprudenceOnline resources: Click here to access online
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Commercial contract law is in every sense optional given the choice between legal systems and law and arbitration. Its 'doctrines' are in fact virtually all default rules. 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 that such minimalism is indeed what commercial parties choose to govern their transactions. It critically engages with alternative schools of thought, that call for active regulation of contracts to promote either economic efficiency or the trust and co-operation necessary for 'relational contracting'. The book also necessarily argues against the view that private law should be understood non-instrumentally (whether through promissory morality, corrective justice, taxonomic rationality, or otherwise). It sketches a restatement of English contract law in line with the thesis.

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