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Contractual Relations: A Contribution to the Critique of the Classical Law of Contract
Contractual Relations is a critique of the theoretical, doctrinal and practical foundations of the entire law of contract. It argues that resolution of the inadequacies of the classical law of contract, and of the welfarist response to the classical law, requires recognition of the social relational nature of exchange and contract.
| Author(s) | By David Campbell (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Lancaster University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 464 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 29 Sept 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
Contractual Relations is a critique of the theoretical, doctrinal and practical foundations of the entire law of contract. It argues that resolution of the inadequacies of the classical law of contract, and of the welfarist response to the classical law, requires recognition of the social relational nature of exchange and contract.
Part 1: Introduction: Economic Exchange and Legal Contract 1: Choice, Mutual Advantage in Exchange, and Freedom of Contract 2: Exchange, Relational Contract, and Mutual Recognition Part 2: The Relational Constitution of the Law of Contract 3: The Rela
David Campbell was educated at Cardiff University, UK (BSc(Econ) 1980), the University of Michigan School of Law, USA (LLM 1985), and the University of Edinburgh, UK (PhD 1985). Since 1985, he has taught at several British universities and in Australia, H
