Rethinking contract law and contract design /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA :
Edward Elgar Publishing
2016.
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| Series: | Rethinking law
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Direct damages
- The reliance-flexibility tradeoff and remedies for breach
- Assessing damages : now or then?
- The lost-volume-seller problem and why Michael Jordan wasn't one
- Six pennies for your thoughts : Freund v. Washington Square Press
- Freund through the looking glass : Chodos v. West Publishing Co.
- Cleaning up Lake River
- Part II. Consequential damages
- The "tacit assumption" and consequential damages
- Buffalo's field of dreams : Kenford Company v. Erie County
- The Achilleas : forsaking foreseeability
- Part III. Excuse and changed circumstances
- Excuse doctrine : the Eisenberg uncertainty principle
- After frustration : three cheers for Chandler v. Webster
- A precedent built on sand : Nor Con v. Niagara Mohawk
- Part IV. Offer and acceptance
- Brown v. Cara, the Type II preliminary agreement, and the option to unbundle
- Traynor (Drennan) v. Hand (Baird) : much ado about (almost) nothing.