- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index
An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Chapter:
- (p.291) An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Source:
- The American Illness
- Author(s):
Michael Bridge
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter presents a comparative analysis of U.S. and English contract law. It considers the principles and misgiving about unconscionability and good faith, drawing appropriate comparisons with English law. The chapter also looks at the main features of Uniform Commercial Code UCC § 2-302 and then assesses its practical impact.
Keywords: U.S. contract law, unconscionability, good faith, English contract law, English law, Uniform Commercial Code
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index