Changing Your Mind: The Law of Regretted Decisions

When does the law permit you to change your mind and reverse a decision you have made? In this masterful book, one of the foremost authorities on American contract law considers the general principles and legal rules that bear on this question. Drawing on many fields—contracts, torts, property, trusts, wills, agency, and even family law and procedure—E. Allan Farnsworth identifies and discusses six such principles.

Using real legal cases as well as an array of nonlegal sources ranging from R...