Rethinking contract law and contract design
- London Edward Elgar 2015
- 286p viii
Contents: 1. Introduction; PART I. Direct Damages; 2. The Reliance-Flexibility Tradeoff and Remedies for Breach; 3. Assessing Damages: Now or Then; 4. The Lost Volume Seller Problem and Why Michael Jordan Wasn’t One; 5. Six Pennies for Your Thoughts: Freund v. Washington Square Press; 6. Freund Through the Looking Glass: Chodos v. West Publishing Co; 7. Cleaning Up Lake River PART II. Consequential Damages; 8. The “tacit assumption” and consequential damages; 9. Buffalo’s Field of Dreams: Kenford Company v. Erie County; 10. The Achilleas: Forsaking Foreseeability; PART III. Excuse and Changed Circumstances; 11. Excuse Doctrine: The Eisenberg Uncertainty Principle; 12. After Frustration: Three Cheers for Chandler v Webster; 13. A Precedent Built on Sand: NorCon v. Niagara Mohawk; PART IV. Offer and Acceptance; 14. Brown v. Cara, the Type II Preliminary Agreement, and the Option to Unbundle; 15. Traynor (Drennan) v Hand (Baird): Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing; 16. Concluding Remarks; Index