TY - BOOK ID - 14306493 TI - Reasonableness and responsibility : a theory of contract law PY - 2013 VL - v. 101 SN - 15724395 SN - 9400746040 9786613946317 9400746059 1283633868 9401781117 9789400746046 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Civil law -- Philosophy. KW - Contracts -- Philosophy. KW - Corporation law. KW - Contracts KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Law, General & Comparative KW - Contracts. KW - Agreements KW - Contract law KW - Contractual limitations KW - Limitations, Contractual KW - Law and legislation KW - Law. KW - Political philosophy. KW - Law KW - Civil law. KW - Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. KW - Political Philosophy. KW - Civil Law. KW - Philosophy. KW - Commercial law KW - Legal instruments KW - Obligations (Law) KW - Juristic acts KW - Liberty of contract KW - Third parties (Law) KW - Political science KW - Law, Civil KW - Private law KW - Roman law KW - Political philosophy KW - Law—Philosophy. KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14306493 AB - If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law? This book proposes a Rawlsian theory of contract law. It argues that justice requires that we understand contract rules in terms of the idea of reasonable, terms of interaction – that is, terms that would be accepted by reasonable persons moved by a desire for a social world in which they, as free and equal, can cooperate with others on terms they accept. On that basis, the book explains the main doctrines of contract law, including those governing third parties, in both the Common Law and the Civil Law. ER -