Goldberg Victor P

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

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1. Contrct Law - Design - U K

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