Liability of contract parties in the franchising contract

Relational Contract, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics

This paper shows that, by adding a limited liability constraint to a standard relational contract model with imperfect public monitoring, one can obtain de…nitive empirical implications of optimal relational contracts that shed light on important features of employment relationship. First and foremost, the employment dynamics has an “up-or-out”property. An employee begins the employment relatio...

Courts and the Tort-Contract Boundary in Product Liability

In (partial) Defense of Strict Liability in Contract

Many scholars believe that notions of fault should and do pervade contract doctrine. Notwithstanding the normative and positive arguments in favor of a fault-based analysis of particular contract doctrines, I argue that contract liability is strict liability at its core. This core regime is based on two key prongs: (1) the promisor is liable to the promisee for breach, and that liability is una...

P-53: Civil Responsibility of Parties to a Partial Surrogacy Contract

Background: During recent years, scientists have presented several methods for treating infertility; these methods occasionally are highly efficient for infertile couples but can be concerning because of legal and ethical issues. One of these methods is surrogacy. Surrogacy is used when the main etiology of infertility is in the uterus caused by these three reasons: lack of uterine‚ congenital ...

Surrogate Immunity: The Government Contract Defense and Products Liability