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Legal Promise and Psychological Contract

This Essay argues that the “psychological contract”—the parties’ respective, subjective, idiosyncratic understandings of their contractual obligations to one another—is important and predictable. The common law of contract tells us how to discern the legal promise. By contrast, the “psychological contract” describes how the parties themselves understand their agreements, an inquiry that refers ...

Legal Certainty and Contract Arrangements

Legal certainty is a fundamental principle which contributes in the rule of law. According to some authors this principle is an “imperative necessity for the European Union”. Indeed the European case-law recognized the principle of legal certainty. One the one hand, through the European Court of Justice in 1962 in the Bosch judgment. As well, the principle of legitimate expectations – which is ...

Legal Contract Drafting at the Micro-Level

This paper reports on research whose general aim has been to explore the potential for developing logic-based tools for the analysis and representation of legal contracts [Daskalopulu 1998]. The intended applications of such representation include both the drafting of new contracts and the management and administration of existing ones, that is to say, the general problem of storing and retriev...

The Contract Buyers League: The Legal Listening Process

The Contract of Employment: a Study in Legal Evolution

This paper reconstructs the evolutionary path of the contract of employment in English law. It demonstrates that the contract of employment is a more recent innovation than is widely thought, and that its essential features owe as much to legislation as they do to the common law of contract. The master-servant model of the nineteenth century was only displaced by the modern contract of employme...