Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine

Author/Contributor(s):	Kreitner, Roy
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/08/2006
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This history of American contract law argues that late nineteenth-century legal scholars revolutionized doctrine by establishing calculating promisors as the centerpiece of their conception of contract, a conception still widely held today.