The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine

by James Gordley

Book Overview

The common law of England and the United States and the civil law of continental Europe have a similar doctrinal structure, a structure not found in the English cases or Roman legal texts from which they supposedly descend. In this original and unorthodox study of common law and legal philosophy the author throws light on the historical origins of this confusion and in doing so attempts to find answers to many of the philosophical puzzles which contract...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198258305
• ISBN13: 9780198258308
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 82.00 lbs.