Contracts in Crises: Excuse Doctrine and Retrospective Government Acts

by Richard E. Speidel

"This book traces and critiques the development of contract excuse doctrine and its application by courts in the "zone of coercion." Necessarily, the development of more general excuse doctrine and different theories of risk allocation is also treated in both private and public contracts. Speidel concludes that contract rights created by private law have received inadequate protection against what amounts to constitutional takings by government. His...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594602697
• ISBN13: 9781594602696
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 299 Pages