Comparative Contract Law /  
edited by Pier Giuseppe Monateri  
 - Cheltenham, UK  Edward Elgar Publishing Limited  2017 
 - xiii, 554p. : ill. ; 24cm 
 - Research Handbooks in Comparative Law .
<br/><br/> It includes Index Pages.<br/><br/>Description:<br/>This comprehensive Handbook offers a thoughtful survey of contract theories, issues and cases in order to reassess the field's present vision of contract law. It engages a critical search for the fault lines which cross traditions of thought and globalized landscapes. Comparative Contract Law is built around four main groups of insights, including: the genealogies of contractual theoretical thinking; the contentious relationship between private governance and normative regulations; the competing styles used to stage contract law; and the concurring opinions expressed within the domain of other disciplines, such as literature and political theory. The chapters in the book tease out the tensions between a global context and local frameworks as well as the movable thresholds between canonical expressions and heterodox constructions.<br/><br/>Table of Contents:<br/><br/><br/>    Content<br/><br/>Front Matter<br/><br/>Full access<br/>Copyright<br/><br/>    Download PDF<br/><br/>Full access<br/>Contents<br/><br/>    Download PDF<br/><br/>    Full access<br/>    Contributors<br/>        Download PDF<br/><br/>Full access<br/>Introduction<br/>Pier Giuseppe Monateri<br/><br/>    Download PDF<br/><br/>PART I: CONTRACT LAW: THEORIES AND GENEALOGIES<br/><br/>Full access<br/>Chapter 1: Theories of contract law<br/>Brian H. Bix<br/><br/>    Download PDF<br/><br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 2: In defense of Roman contract law<br/>James Gordley<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 3: The authoritarian theory of contract<br/>Pier Giuseppe Monateri<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 4: Contract and the comparatist: should we think about contract in terms of ‘contracticles’?<br/>Geoffrey Samuel<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 5: Critical comparative contract law<br/>Giovanni Marini<br/><br/>    Restricted access<br/>    Chapter 6: Contract law and regulation<br/>    Giuseppe Bellantuono<br/><br/>PART II: MARKET VALUES AND THEIR CRITIQUES: PRIVATE GOVERNANCE AND NORMATIVE REGULATIONS<br/><br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 7: Enforcing bilateral promises: a comparative law and economics perspective<br/>Francesco Parisi<br/>, Marta Cenini<br/>, and Barbara Luppi<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 8: Spontaneous order and freedom of contract<br/>Carlo Ludovico Cordasco<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 9: ‘Party autonomy’<br/>Horatia Muir Watt<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 10: Who is the contracting party? A trip around the transformation of the legal subject<br/>Maria Rosaria Marella<br/><br/>    Restricted access<br/>    Chapter 11: Freedom of contract and constitutional values: some exceptional cases from the Colombian Constitutional Court<br/>    Pablo Moreno Cruz<br/><br/>PART III: REPRESENTATIONS AND NARRATIVES<br/><br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 12: The unburiable contract: Grant Gilmore’s discontinuous parabola and the literary construction of American legal style<br/>Cristina Costantini<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 13: Queering the contractual paradigm between law and political theory<br/>Flavia Monceri<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 14: Contracts in literature: from Doctor Faustus to vampires<br/>Daniela Carpi<br/><br/>    Restricted access<br/>    Chapter 15: Women and contracts in Angela Carter’s postmodern revision of the fairy tale<br/>    Sidia Fiorato<br/><br/>PART IV: GLOBAL CONTEXT AND LOCAL FRAMES<br/><br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 16: The wrecking ball: good faith, preemption and US exceptionalism<br/>Peter Goodrich<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 17: Technological contracts<br/>Massimiliano Granieri<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 18: Contractual interpretation: the South African blend of common, civil and indigenous law in comparative perspective<br/>Andrew Hutchison<br/>Restricted access<br/>Chapter 19: Promissory estoppel<br/>Paolo Pardolesi<br/><br/>    Restricted access<br/>    Chapter 20: Party autonomy in global context: an international lawyer’s take on the political economy of a self-constituting regime<br/>    Horatia Muir Watt<br/><br/>Full access<br/>Index<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781849804516 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Contracts
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.022 MON