The State and Freedom of ContractStanford University Press, 1998 - 392 páginas The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. "Freedom of contract" is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad issues of policy and law, rather than on narrow considerations of legal doctrine. All the contributors reject stereotypes that pervade the existing literature about the allegedly unalloyed individualism of the common law, and show how active state interventions of various kinds have shaped contract law in relation to social change throughout our legal history. Equally, however, they reject shibboleths regarding "bringing the state back in," and take a hard look at the claims of statist ideology regarding the norms and rules that have established the legal boundaries of liberty in the modern industrial and post-industrial eras. The topics covered are Blackstone's claim that property was the "despotic dominion of the private owner" (A. W. B. Simpson), labor and contract (John V. Orth), the influence of philosophical trends on legal innovations (James Gordley), contract and individualism (David Lieberman), the tradition of public rights (Harry N. Scheiber), the formal concept of "liberty of contract" in American law (Charles McCurdy), the interwoven history of labor law and contract law (Arthur McEvoy), public policy in relation to natural resources (Donald Pisani), and globalization of freedom of contract (Martin Shapiro). |
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... claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe . " Simpson analyzes the way in which alienability of land , separation of property interests from the ...
... claims of the ecosys- tem itself . These claims for ecosystem protection are posed against legal doctrines of resource use that are anthropocentric in their character , expressive of an individualism ( aggressive or otherwise ) that ...
... claim that " The substance of the law at any given time pretty nearly corre- sponds , as far as it goes , with what is then understood to be con- venient ; but its form and machinery , and the degree to which it is able to work out ...
... claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe . " That certainly does sound like an account of total economic freedom in relation to landownership ...
... claim . In con- sequence the fee was of indefinite and potentially unending dura- tion . In terms of the analysis of interests in land by time it was the greatest interest . The fee simple had also become freely alienable . Insofar as ...
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Contract and the Common Law | 44 |
Contract Property and the WillThe Civil Law | 66 |
Contract Before Freedom of Contract | 89 |
Economic Liberty and the Modern State | 122 |
The Liberty of Contract Regime in American Law | 161 |
Freedom of Contract Labor and the Administrative State | 198 |
Natural Resources and Economic Liberty in American | 236 |
Globalization of Freedom of Contract | 269 |
Notes | 301 |
Index | 365 |