The State and Freedom of Contract - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804733708 ISBN 13 : 9780804733700

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. 'Freedom of contract' is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad issues of policy and law, rather than on narrow considerations of legal doctrine. All the contributors reject stereotypes that pervade the existing literature about the allegedly unalloyed individualism of the common law, and show how active state interventions of various kinds have shaped contract law in relation to social change throughout our legal history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804733708
• ISBN 13: 9780804733700
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 361
• Éditeur: Scheiber Harry N.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible