Boilerplate : : The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law / / Margaret Jane Radin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Radin, Margaret Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 12 halftones. 4 line illus.

Boilerplate--the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "I agree" online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets--pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: World A (Agreement) and World B (Boilerplate)
• Part I. Boilerplate, Consumers' Rights, and the Rule of Law
• Chapter One. An Overview of Worlds A and B
• Chapter Two. Normative Degradation
• Chapter Three. Democratic Degradation
• Part II. Boilerplate and Contract Theory: Rationales and Rationalizations
• Chapter Four. A Summary of the Philosophy of Contract
• Chapter Five. Can Autonomy Theory (Agreement, Consent) Justify Boilerplate Deletion of Rights?
• Chapter Six. Can Utilitarian-Welfare (Economic) Theory Justify Boilerplate Deletion of Rights?
• Part III. Boilerplate and Contract Remedies: Current Judicial Oversight and Possible Improvements
• Chapter Seven. Evaluating Current Judicial Oversight
• Chapter Eight. Can Current Oversight Be Improved?
• Chapter Nine. Improving Evaluation of Boilerplate
• Part IV. Escaping Contract: Other Remedial Possibilities
• Chapter Ten. "Private" Reform Ideas
• Chapter Eleven. Reconceptualizing (Some) Boilerplate under Tort Law
• Chapter Twelve. "Public" and Hybrid Regulatory Solutions
• Afterword: What's Next for Boilerplate?
• Notes
• Index