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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... chapters 6 and 7. Gordley's analysis includes a recapitulation of the con- tinuing vitality.of Roman law and natural law ... chapter 4. He finds abundant evidence of the vigor with which traditional restraints on contractual freedom per ...
... Chapter 5 shifts the focus of attention to the American side of the water , in an overview and analysis of economic liberty and state power . First , this chapter considers how , in the founding of the new republic after the Revolution ...
... chapter 5. Fi- nally , he provides an analysis of the Supreme Court's reversal of course in the 1930s , and rejection of the Lochnei doctrinal heritage , underlining the Court's unwillingness to do more ( doctrinally ) than extend the ...
... chapter 8 , Donald Pisani offers an in- terpretation of how public policy , including both privatization of resources and their regulation and conservation , reflects the ideol- ogy of individualism and the competing demands of ...
... chapter , Martin Shapiro carries forward into the contemporary period many of the historical themes in the previous chapters . The " globalization " of business that has weakened both national sovereignty and the effectiveness of ...
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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 |