Justice in Transactions : : A Theory of Contract Law / / Peter Benson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Benson, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART ONE. PRINCIPLES --; A. Formation --; Introduction: With What Should an Account of Contract Formation Begin? --; 1. Consideration: Its Meaning, Role, and Consequences --; 2. Offer and Acceptance, the Objective Test, and Contractual Intent --; 3. Implication --; B. Fairness --; 4. The Paradigm of Contractual Fairness: The Principle of Unconscionability --; 5. Three Other Doctrines about Fair Terms --; 6. Fairness and Assent in Standard Form Contracts --; C. Enforcement --; 7. Fundamental Ideas --; 8. Unity and Diversity in the Law of Contract Remedies --; 9. Expectation Damages and Contract Theory --; PART TWO. THEORY --; 10. Contract as a Transfer of Ownership --; 11. A Moral Basis for Contract as Transfer --; 12. The Stability of Contract as Transfer --; Notes --; Table of Cases --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674241985; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674241985
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Benson.

Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues that contract is best explained as a transfer of rights governed by a conception of justice. The result is a comprehensive theory of contract law congruent with Rawlsian liberalism.