A Theory of Contract Law - Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology (Hardcover)

In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Understandings and Moral Psychology, Professor Peter A. Alces confronts the leading interpretive theories of contract and demonstrates their interpretive doctrinal failures. Professor Alces presents the leading canonical cases that inform the extant theories of Contract law in both their historical and transactional contexts and, argues that moral psychology provides a better explanation for the contract doctrine than do alternative comprehensive interpretive approaches.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	April 2011
Authors:	Peter A Alces (Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	241 x 165 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-537160-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Civil law (general works) Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Contract law Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-537160-7
Barcode:	9780195371604

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