Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which
Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract …

This concise landmark in law and jurisprudence offers the first coherent, liberal account of
contract law. The Choice Theory of Contracts answers the field's most pressing questions …

Imagine you supply innovative parts to the world's largest construction equipment maker.
During a decades-long business relationship, you share your trade secrets under a …

Specific performance is a central contractual remedy but, in A nglo‐A merican law, generally
is subordinate to damages. Despite rich theoretical discussions of specific performance, little …

The common wisdom surrounding specific performance in US contract law is that it is
disfavored. 1 Instead, the favored remedy for contract breach is money damages …

A theoretical discussion and internal critique of mainstream law and economics scholarship,
especially as it approaches the issue of paternalism. Cserne discusses how, and to what …

At the time Contract as PromiseI was written, there were two views of the subject in the field:
a traditional, doctrinal and not particularly theorized view that saw contract as the law's way …

Would more polluters be deterred if they might be forced to dis-gorge their gains rather than
pay damages based on harm? Would fewer promises be broken if contract breach might …

In a 2016 acceptance speech during the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, actor
and activist Jesse Williams used the phrase" gentrifying our genius" to refer to the insidious …

In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the philosophical study of contract law.
In 1981 Charles Fried claimed that contract law is based on the philosophy of promise and …