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In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology, Professor Peter A. Alces confronts the leading interpretive theories of contract and demonstrates their doctrinal failures. Professor Alces presents the leading canonical cases that inform the extant theories of Contract law in both their historical and transactional contexts and argues that moral psychology provides a better explanation for the contract doctrine than do alternative comprehensive interpretive approaches.

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• Premises (and equivocations)(p. xi)
• Acknowledgements(p. xv)
• Chapter 1 Failure of Normative Contract Theory(p. 1)
• A The Landscape(p. 1)
• B Human Agency(p. 4)
• C Theory's Job(p. 4)
• D An Alternative Sense of Theory(p. 11)
• Chapter 2 Constituents of Canonical Status(p. 13)
• A Constitution of a Contract Canon(p. 14)
• B Constituents of Canonical Status(p. 15)
• C The Literary Analogy(p. 17)
• D What We Read(p. 18)
• E Why We Read(p. 19)
• F The Canon Sets Limits(p. 21)
• G Achieved Anxieties(p. 22)
• H What We Are Looking For(p. 23)
• I The Three Phases of Contract Doctrine(p. 24)
• Chapter 3 Contract Formation Doctrine(p. 27)
• A Raffles v. Wichelhaus(p. 28)
• B Lucy v. Zehmer(p. 31)
• C Sherwood v. Walker(p. 35)
• D Hawkins v. McGee(p. 39)
• E Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.(p. 40)
• F ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg(p. 42)
• G Mills v. Wyman(p. 53)
• H Hamer v. Sidway(p. 58)
• I Allegheny College v. National Chautauqua County Bank(p. 60)
• J Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon(p. 63)
• K Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc.(p. 67)
• L Dickinson v. Dodds(p. 70)
• Chapter 4 Theory of Contract Formation(p. 75)
• A Offer and Acceptance: The Objective-Subjective Tension(p. 76)
• B Mistake(p. 85)
• C The Quid Pro Quo Requirement(p. 93)
• Chapter 5 Contract Performance Doctrine(p. 115)
• A Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent(p. 115)
• B Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.(p. 122)
• C Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc.(p. 129)
• D Taylor v. Caldwell and Krell v. Henry(p. 134)
• E Lawrence v. Fox(p. 139)
• F Alaska Packers' Association v. Domenico(p. 144)
• G Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co.(p. 148)
• Chapter 6 Theory of Contract Performance(p. 154)
• A Unconscionability(p. 156)
• B Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration(p. 170)
• C Modification(p. 182)
• D Third Parties(p. 191)
• E The Parol Evidence Rule(p. 195)
• Chapter 7 Contract Enforcement Doctrine(p. 202)
• A Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co.(p. 203)
• B Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores(p. 209)
• C Ricketts v. Scothorn(p. 211)
• D Britton v. Turner(p. 215)
• E Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.(p. 222)
• F Hadley v. Baxendale(p. 225)
• G Security Stove & Manufacturing Co. v. American Railway Express Co.(p. 233)
• Chapter 8 Theory of Contract Enforcement(p. 237)
• A The Limits of Liability(p. 237)
• B Estoppel-Based Liability(p. 258)
• Chapter 9 Toward an Empirical Morality(p. 268)
• A The Limits of the Deontic-Consequentialist Dichotomy(p. 274)
• B Moral Psychology(p. 276)
• C The Limits of Normativity: Only So Much Doctrine Can Do(p. 289)
• Appendix(p. 293)
• Bibliography(p. 311)
• Index(p. 321)

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Peter A. Alces is the Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law at The College of William and Mary, where he has taught since 1990. He practiced with the commercial group of the Chicago office of Sidley and Austin, before entering teaching in 1983. Prior to joining the William and Mary faculty, Professor Alces taught at the University of Alabama School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas, Washington and Lee University, and University of Illinois law schools, and during the 1987-88 and 2008-09 academic years he visited at the Washington University School of Law. Professor Alces is the author (or co-author) of ten books on commercial law topics, including casebooks (published by West, Matthew Bender, and Lexis-Nexis) and treatises (published by Little Brown (now Aspen), Warren, Gorham and Lamont (now Thomson-West), and Callaghan (now Thomson-West). His articles and essays have appeared in leading journals, including the California (Berkeley), Northwestern, Georgetown, Texas, Michigan, Illinois, Washington University, Emory, and Minnesota law reviews.