Economic impossibility in Turkish contract law from the perspective of law and economics

The Law and Economics of Contract Interpretation

Contract interpretation is an understudied topic in the economic analysis of contract law. This paper combines simple formal analysis of the tradeoffs involved in interpretation with applications to the principal doctrines of contract interpretation, including the “four corners” rule, mutual mistake, contra proferentum, and what I call the (informal but very important) rule of “extrinsic nonevi...

The Role of Economic Rights and the Law in Social Economics : a Classic Natural Law Perspective

ASE sessions at the 2014 ASSA Philadelphia, January 3-5, 2014 ! The Role of Economic Rights and the Law in Social Economics: a Classic Natural Law Perspective !! Stefano Solari Università di Padova, Departement of Economics & Management [email protected] http://www.giuri.unipd.it/~solari/ ! !!! first draft !!!!! Abstract The paper presents a legal approach to social economics, that is to ...

Impossibility , Hardship and Exemption under Ibero-american Contract Law

law-and-economics from the perspective of critical legal studies

The Economics of Agency Law and Contract Formation

This article addresses issues that arise in agency law when agents make contracts on behalf of principals. The main issue is whether the principal should be bound when the agent makes a contract with some third party on his behalf which the principal would immediately wish to disavow. The resulting tradeoffs resemble those in tort law, so the least-cost-avoider principle is useful for deciding ...