The Rebirth of Contract: Putting Promissory Estoppel to the Sword

The Rebirth of Contract is a critical investigation for judges, academics, and students into the contrived genesis and ill-advised nature of the purported contract law doctrine of 'promissory estoppel.' It argues 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 historic...