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Speculations of Contract, or How Contract Law Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Risk
- Roy Kreitner
- Economics
- 1 May 2000
Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine
- Roy Kreitner
- Political Science
- 8 December 2006
This book is a history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. It details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case-law,… Expand
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The Gift Beyond the Grave: Revisiting the Question of Consideration
- Roy Kreitner
- Political Science
- 1 December 2001
What are the stakes in distinguishing between gifts and contracts, between gratuitous undertakings and those supported by consideration? The article addresses the stakes of the distinction, by… Expand
Legal Theory for Legal Empiricists
- H. Dagan, Roy Kreitner, Tamar Kricheli-Katz
- Political Science
- 1 March 2018
There is a widespread view that one does either theory or empirical work, and that theory and empiricism represent distant concerns, opposing world-views, perhaps distinct mentalities or… Expand
Fault at the Contract-Tort Interface
- Roy Kreitner
- Economics
- 27 April 2009
The formative period in the history of contract and tort (in the second half of the nineteenth century) may be characterized by the cleavage of contract and tort around the concept of fault: tort… Expand
Fear of Contract
- Roy Kreitner
- Political Science
- 14 December 2004
In recent years, a growing body of scholarly literature written from divergent perspectives has argued that courts should curtail the expansion of contractual liability. This article begins by… Expand
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Temptations of Pure Procedural Justice: A Comment on Elizabeth Anderson
- Roy Kreitner
- Economics
- 19 January 2007
Legal History of Money
- Roy Kreitner
- Sociology
- 26 October 2012
The legal history of money is not a well-defined field with a canon and an accepted set of questions and conflicts. This review muses about the possible reasons for the late development of the field… Expand