Fault in American Contract Law

ISBN: 9781107612846 出版年：2010 页码：338 Omri Ben-Shahar Ariel Porat Cambridge University Press

Part I. The Case for Strict Liability: 1. Let us never blame a contract breaker Richard A. Posner 2. In (partial) defense of strict liability in contract Robert E. Scott 3. The fault principle as the chameleon of contract law: a market function approach Stefan Grundmann Part II. The Case for Fault: 4. How fault shapes contract law George M. Cohen 5. Fault in contract law Eric A. Posner 6. The role of fault in contract law: unconscionability, unexpected circumstances, interpretation, mistake, and nonperformance Melvin Aron Eisenberg Part III. Between Strict Liability and Fault: 7. Fault at the contract-tort interface Roy Kreitner 8. The many faces of fault in contract law: or how to do economics right, without really trying Richard A. Epstein 9. The productive tension between official and unofficial stories of fault in contract law Martha M. Ertman Part IV. Willful Breach: 10. When is a willful breach 'willful'? The link between definitions and damages Richard Craswell 11. Willful breach: an efficient screen for efficient breach Peter Siegelman and Steve Thel 12. An information theory of willful breach Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar 13. Contract law and the willfulness diversion Barry E. Adler Part V. Comparative Fault: 14. A comparative fault defense in contract law Ariel Porat 15. Stipulated damages, super-strict liability, and mitigation in contract law Saul Levmore 16. Creditor's fault: in search of a comparative frame Fabrizio Caffagi Part VI. The Morality of Breach: 17. Why breach of contract may not be immoral given the incompleteness of contracts Steven Shavell 18. Fault and harm in breach of contract Dori Kimel 19. Fault in contracts, a psychological approach Tess Wilkinson-Ryan.