The Death of Contract
$51.87
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1995
Summary
The Death of Contract is a masterful commentary on the common law, especially the law of promissory obligation known as contracts. In this slim and lively book, the late Yale law professor Grant Gilmore examines the birth, development, death, and even the resurrection of a body of American law. It is both a modern-day reply to and a funeral oration for an American legal classic-Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Common Law. Gilmore argues that the rigid, formalistic approach of classic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814206768 |
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| ISBN-10: | 081420676X |
| Author: | Grant Gilmore, Ronald K.L. Collins |
| Publisher: | Ohio State University Press |
| Imprint: | Ohio State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1995 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Gilmore altered forever the way we look at contract law–much like Gould did with the Goldberg Variations .” –Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University School of Law
“Anyone interested in the fate of modern law will want to ponder the large and provocative claims advanced in this witty and insightful book.”
–Anthony T. Kronman, Dean, Yale Law School
“Gilmore altered forever the way we look at contract law–much like Gould did with the Goldberg Variations.”
–Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University School of Law
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