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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... important to note , in this regard , one special feature of the rhetoric . In the United States , the term " liberty of contract " was designated by the courts as a constitutional concept , and as such it became a touchstone doctrine by ...
... importance of the private sector — the realm of private transactions in which the in- stitution of contract permits individuals or corporations in effect to make law for themselves . They do so by means of the agreements in contract ...
... importance of contract and its separation from property law , is illustrated in Lieberman's closing discussion of the contributions of William Paley , an important but sometimes for- gotten contemporary of Smith and Bentham ...
... important parallels with emerging debates of the " in- dustrial question " involving social conflict and dislocations ac- companying economic growth and change in Britain . Chapter 6 comes directly to the issue of " liberty of contract ...
... importance to the confrontations over how to dispose of or otherwise manage re- sources — is the role of science . More recently , as is shown in the final section of the chapter , there has also entered into the debates over ...
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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 |