The Rebirth of Contract: Putting Promissory Estoppel to the Sword

The Rebirth of Contract is a comprehensive guide for judges, academics, and students seeking to understand the contract law doctrine of 'promissory estoppel.' It provides evidence that this doctrine was artificially invented and historically unprecedented and offers economic and moral grounds for repudiating it. The book also presents an analytic framework for deciding 'promissory estoppel cases' using traditional contract law tools. By tracing the historical development of Anglo-American c...