Contract Law

Content :
Introduction
PART I CONTRACT LAW: THEORIES AND GENEALOGIES
1. Theories of Contract Law
Brian H. Bix

2. In Defense of Roman Contract Law
James Gordley

3. The Authoritarian Theory of Contract
Pier Giuseppe Monateri

4. Contract and the Comparatist: Should We Think About Contract in Terms of ‘Contracticles’?
Geoffrey Samuel

5. Critical Comparative Contract Law
Giovanni Marini

6. Contract Law and Regulation
Giuseppe Bellantuono

PART II MARKET VALUES AND THEIR CRITIQUES. PRIVATE GOVERNANCE AND NORMATIVE REGULATIONS
7. Enforcing Bilateral Promises: A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective
Francesco Parisi, Marta Cenini and Barbara Luppi

8. Spontaneous Order and Freedom of Contract
Carlo Ludovico Cordasco

9. “Party Autonomy”
Horatia Muir Watt

10. Who is the Contracting Party? A Trip Around the Transformation of the Legal Subject
Maria Rosaria Marella

11. Freedom of Contract and Constitutional Values: Some Exceptional Cases from the Colombian Constitutional Court
Pablo Moreno Cruz

PART III REPRESENTATIONS AND NARRATIVES
12. The Unburiable Contract. Grant Gilmore’s Discontinuous Parabola and the Literary Construction of American Legal Style
Cristina Costantini

13. Queering the Contractual Paradigm between Law and Political Theory
Flavia Monceri

14. Contracts in Literature: from Doctor Faustus to Vampires
Daniela Carpi

15. Women and contracts in Angela Carter’s Postmodern Revision of the Fairy Tale
Sidia Fiorato

PART IV GLOBAL CONTEXT AND LOCAL FRAMES
16. The Wrecking Ball. Good Faith, Preemption and US Exceptionalism
Peter Goodrich

17. Technological Contracts
Massimiliano Granieri

18. Contractual Interpretation: The South African Blend Of Common, Civil And Indigenous Law In Comparative Perspective
Andrew Hutchison

19. Promissory Estoppel
Paolo Pardolesi

20. Party Autonomy in Global Context: An International Laywer’s Take on the Political Economy of a Self-constituting Regime.
Horatia Muir Watt

Index