Kreitner, Roy.

Calculating promises the emergence of modern American contract doctrine / [electronic resource] : Roy Kreitner. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 242 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presents the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. This book details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers.

Specialized.

9780804768054 No price


Contracts--History.--United States
Promise (Law)--History.--United States
Law.
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.

KF801 / .K74 2007

346.7302