Fried: ∗contract∗ As Promise (cloth): A Theory of Contractual Obligation - Hardcover

FRIED, C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674169255 ISBN 13: 9780674169258

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1981

Synopsis

For law students and legal scholars, Contract as Promise offers a coherent survey of an important legal concept. For philosophers and social scientists, the book is a unique demonstration of the practical and detailed entailments of moral theory.

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Review:

A readable and provocative book on the philosophical foundations of contract law...Fried's argument makes a powerful case for the view that the law of contracts has a recognizable and distinctive intellectual integrity of its own...Students will find Fried's unifying hypothesis a helpful aid. Charles Fried attempts to restate and defend a liberal theory of contract...In setting out to defend what is, albeit in modified form, the classical theory of contract, Professor Fried is conscious that he is confronting a considerable weight of modern contract scholarship...This Fried confronts or finesses with elegance, grace, and skill. Fried calls into question some of the most deeply held assumptions of contract law and argues powerfully for a moral basis of contract...Fried's book offers a sensitive and subtle investigation, a richly suggestive vision of contract theory. The study and systematic critical discussion of such theory is of the first importance, for it is a question of nothing less than the relationship between law and morals.

About the Author:

Charles Fried is Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0674169255
• ISBN 13: 9780674169258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176