Overview
- The only monograph on the Rawlsian foundations of contract law
- Clarity of exposition, analytical rigour and conceptual sophistication
- Provides a broad theoretical appraisal of a core area of law
- Appeals to scholars, professors, and students in both common law and civil law jurisdictions
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 101)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Contract Law
- Contract Law Theory
- Contract Law and Distributive Justice
- Corrective Justice
- Distributive Justice
- Distributive Understanding of Contract Law
- Explaining Contract Doctrine
- Fairness and Contract Law Theory
- John Rawls
- Kant and Contractual Legal Theory
- Limits on Freedom of Contract
- Monism in Political Philosophy
- Nature of Contractual Rights
- Privity of Contract Rule
- Rawls's Theory of Justice
- Reasonableness and Contract Law Theory
About this book
This book proposes a Rawlsian theory of contract law. It argues that justice requires that we understand contract rules in terms of the idea of reasonable, terms of interaction – that is, terms that would be accepted by reasonable persons moved by a desire for a social world in which they, as free and equal, can cooperate with others on terms they accept. On that basis, the book explains the main doctrines of contract law, including those governing third parties, in both the Common Law and the Civil Law.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law
Authors: Martín Hevia
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4605-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4604-6Published: 12 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8111-4Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4605-3Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 184
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Philosophy, Civil Law