DEATH OF CONTRACT: SECOND EDITION
“Death of Contract: Second Edition” by Grant Gilmore, published by Ohio State University Press in October 1995, offers a detailed commentary on the common law, particularly focusing on the law of contracts. This edition, comprising 214 pages, presents Gilmore’s examination of the evolution and implications of promissory obligations within American law, positioning it as both a response to and a critique of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “The Common Law.”
Readers will find that this book delves into the historical context and ongoing relevance of contract law, encouraging a critical reflection on its past and future. The new foreword by Ronald K. L. Collins adds depth to the discussion, while a revised bibliography highlights the sustained interest in this significant legal discourse. “Death of Contract” remains a thought-provoking exploration for those engaged in the study of contracts and the broader legal landscape.
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The Death of Contract is a masterful commentary on the common law, especially the law of promissory obligation known as contracts. In this slim and lively book, the late Yale law professor Grant Gilmore examines the birth, development, death, and even the resurrection of a body of American law. It is both a modern-day reply to and a funeral oration for an American legal classic—Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Common Law.
This new edition, with an instructive and timely foreword by Ronald K. L. Collins, challenges anyone interested in the life of the law to think about where it has come from and where it is tending. As such, The Death of Contract still retains its vitality in the brave new world of the law known as contracts. A new bibliography of early reviews and new responses reveals how considerable the interest was, and continues to be, in this modern anti-classic.
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