Title: Paternalism in Contract Law: Rationalization and Critique
Abstract: This chapter discusses the problem of paternalism in the context of contract law. Contract law is understood here as a body of legal rules that pertains to the enforcement and regulation of voluntary private agreements. These agreements, to be sure, do not always come within the ambit of the law, although in modern legal systems they are all potentially subject to regulation by state law or another set of legal rules.KeywordsCivil CodeContract TheoryDefault RuleConsumer ContractLegal MoralismThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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