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Book SynopsisExplores the philosophical concept of 'exploitation' in the law relating to the formation of contracts. This volume discusses the criteria for a claim of 'legal contractual exploitation'. It examines the consequences of this conception of exploitation upon the contract law doctrines of unconscionable dealing, duress, and undue influence.
Trade Review...the reader will benefit from Bigwood's guide to what is now a very large body of doctrine...this book refuses to be swamped by the amount of material it discusses. * Cambridge Law Journal *
Table of Contents1. Prospectus ; 2. Operational Bargaining Norms: Contracting Beyond Utopia ; 3. Contract and Justice: From Involuntariness to Exploitation ; 4. Legal Contractual Exploitation ; 5. Towards a Purely Processual Conception of Legal Contractual Exploitation ; 6. Exploitation of Special Disadvantage: Unconscionable Dealing ; 7. Contracting Under Duress ; 8. Exploitation of Deferential Trust: Relational Undue Influence ; 9. Beyond Legal Contractual Exploitation: Towards a Common Law Precept of Transactional Care ; References