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The Death of Contract

Grant Gilmore

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Essence: Contracts and the common law's evolution.

Recommendation: The Death of Contract is a must-read for law students and legal professionals as it provides a critical analysis of the common law's development and transformation within the context of contracts. It is a modern rebuttal to Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law, examining the resurrection and death of the law of promissory obligation. If you're curious about the history and evolution of contracts, this book is a compelling read.

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The Death of Contract

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ISBN: 9780814206768
Author: Grant Gilmore
Date of Publication: 1995-10-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.73
(rated by 86 readers)

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The Death of Contract is a masterful commentary on the common law, especially the law of promissory obligation known as contracts. In this slim and lively book, the late Yale law professor Grant Gilmore examines the birth, development, death, and even the resurrection of a body of American law. It is both a modern-day reply to and a funeral oration for an American legal classic—Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Common Law.This new edition, with an instructive and timely foreword by Ronald K. L. Collins, challenges anyone interested in the life of the law to think about where it has come from and where it is tending. As such, The Death of Contract still retains its vitality in the brave new world of the law known as contracts. A new bibliography of early reviews and new responses reveals how considerable the interest was, and continues to be, in this modern anti-classic.
 

Essence: Contracts and the common law's evolution.

Recommendation: The Death of Contract is a must-read for law students and legal professionals as it provides a critical analysis of the common law's development and transformation within the context of contracts. It is a modern rebuttal to Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law, examining the resurrection and death of the law of promissory obligation. If you're curious about the history and evolution of contracts, this book is a compelling read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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