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Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s set of principles, properly understood, continues to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges.

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Douglas Baird's book is an excellent, non-technical introduction to the law and economics of contracts that is geared to the law student or even the non-economically oriented law professor who wants to be introduced to the field through what by consensus are the most famous cases. -- Ian Ayres, Yale Law School
Reconstructing Contracts is an excellent primer for students (and professors) who are beginning to think seriously about the design of American contract law. I expect it to become a go-to text for first-year law students. -- Edward R. Morrison, University of Chicago Law School

Reconstructing Contracts

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 30 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780674072480
      978-0674072480
      ISBN-10 0674072480
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s set of principles, properly understood, continues to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges.

      Trade Review
      Douglas Baird's book is an excellent, non-technical introduction to the law and economics of contracts that is geared to the law student or even the non-economically oriented law professor who wants to be introduced to the field through what by consensus are the most famous cases. -- Ian Ayres, Yale Law School
      Reconstructing Contracts is an excellent primer for students (and professors) who are beginning to think seriously about the design of American contract law. I expect it to become a go-to text for first-year law students. -- Edward R. Morrison, University of Chicago Law School

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