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Tables of Contents for Contract Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
1. Introduction
1
6
2. Morality, Promise, and the Objective Method
7
14
Ex Gratia to Mansfield, Holmes, Fried, Atiyah
7
4
The Transformation from Subjectivism to Objectivism
11
5
Limitations of Language
13
1
The Dominion of the External
14
2
Gilmore's Duality: Questions of Fact and Questions of Law
16
1
Cardozo's Objective and Subjective Change
17
1
Symmetry of Form and Substance
18
3
3. Actual Intent versus Apparent Intent
21
30
The Internal as Representation of the External
21
1
The Objective Theory of Contracts
22
11
The Reasonable Person Standard
23
2
The Twin Pillars of Contract: Bargain and Reliance
25
1
Reliance Theory
26
1
Reasonable Reliance: The Realm of Expanded Liability
27
1
The Frontier of Contracts: Comfort Instruments
28
3
The Presumption of Intentionality
31
2
Promisor-Promisee Objectivity
33
3
Communal Objectivity and Detached Objectivity
36
9
Llewellyn's Duality: Specific Assent and Blanket Assent
38
4
The Implication of Consent: Barnett's Second-Order Problem of Knowledge
42
3
The Subjective Theory of Contracts
45
4
The Modified Subjective or Intersubjective Approach
49
2
4. The Reasonable Person Standard
51
24
The Parties
53
3
Totality of the Circumstances
56
4
Custom and Trade Usage
60
8
Custom as Supplement
64
1
Language as Custom
65
1
Main Purpose Rule
66
2
Manifestation of Intent and Its Manipulation
68
4
Relational Consent
72
3
5. The Dialectic
75
16
Religious Foundations
75
4
Philosophical Foundations
79
4
Durkheim's Objectivity and the Just Contract
82
1
Philosophy and the Reasonable Person
83
2
The Psychological Dimension
85
3
The Judicial Mind and the Reasonable Person
88
3
6. Law of Satisfaction
91
10
The "Law of Satisfaction" and the Objective Theory of Contracts
91
2
Freedom of Contract and the Presumption of Reasonableness
93
1
Subjective Satisfaction and Objective Dissatisfaction
94
2
Kant's Conception of Law
96
2
The Doctrine of Substantial Performance
98
3
7. The Reality of Intent
101
14
The Infancy Law Doctrine
102
5
The Objectification of the Infancy Law Doctrine
103
1
The Judicial Assault
103
3
The Legislative Assault
106
1
Law as Evolution
107
2
The Case of Economic Duress
109
2
The Undue Influence Duality
111
1
The Externalities of Contracts
112
3
8. Analogues
115
14
Criminal Law: Mens Rea
115
6
Circumstantial Evidence and the State of Mind Requirement
118
3
The Criminal Law's Reasonable Person Standard
121
1
Law of Agency: Implied and Apparent Authority
121
3
Reasonableness and the Law of Agency
123
1
The Deontological-Teleological Dialectic
124
2
An International Comparative: The CISG
126
3
9. The Inner Experience of Contract Law
129
12
Jural Rudiments and Human Values
129
4
The Subjectivity of Judgement
133
3
Discretion as the Touchstone of Subjectivity
134
2
Dialectic as Synthesis
136
2
Law's Inner Experience
138
3
Summa
141
4
Notes
145
54
Bibliography
199
8
Index
207