Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine

By Roy Kreitner

This history of American contract law argues that late nineteenth-century legal scholars revolutionized doctrine by establishing calculating promisors as the centerpiece of their conception of contract, a conception still widely held today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753989
• ISBN13: 9780804753982
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"