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"Contents" [2017] ELECD 599; in Monateri, Giuseppe Pier (ed), "Comparative Contract Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) v

Book Title: Comparative Contract Law

Editor(s): Monateri, Giuseppe Pier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849804516

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors vii

Introduction 1
Pier Giuseppe Monateri

PART I CONTRACT LAW: THEORIES AND GENEALOGIES

1 Theories of contract law 7
Brian H. Bix
2 In defense of Roman contract law 19
James Gordley
3 The authoritarian theory of contract 47
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
4 Contract and the comparatist: should we think about contract
in terms of `contracticles'? 67
Geoffrey Samuel
5 Critical comparative contract law 95
Giovanni Marini
6 Contract law and regulation 111
Giuseppe Bellantuono

PART II MARKET VALUES AND THEIR CRITIQUES: PRIVATE
GOVERNANCE AND NORMATIVE REGULATIONS

7 Enforcing bilateral promises: a comparative law and economics
perspective 145
Francesco Parisi, Marta Cenini and Barbara Luppi
8 Spontaneous order and freedom of contract 173
Carlo Ludovico Cordasco
9 `Party autonomy' 193
Horatia Muir Watt
10 Who is the contracting party? A trip around the transformation
of the legal subject 205
Maria Rosaria Marella

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11 Freedom of contract and constitutional values: some exceptional
cases from the Colombian Constitutional Court 216
Pablo Moreno Cruz

PART III REPRESENTATIONS AND NARRATIVES

12 The unburiable contract: Grant Gilmore's discontinuous parabola
and the literary construction of American legal style 245
Cristina Costantini
13 Queering the contractual paradigm between law and political
theory 303
Flavia Monceri
14 Contracts in literature: from Doctor Faustus to vampires 322
Daniela Carpi
15 Women and contracts in Angela Carter's postmodern revision
of the fairy tale 361
Sidia Fiorato

PART IV GLOBAL CONTEXT AND LOCAL FRAMES

16 The wrecking ball: good faith, ...