The Wisconsin Law Review 2004 Symposium, "Freedom from Contract," will be held February 6-7-8 at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison.
Freedom of contract has often been at the center of contracts scholarship. Less so, freedom from contract: the ability of parties to make legally unenforceable promises. This theme is at the core of some of the most perplexing problems of current commercial law. There are a growing number of circumstances in which liability arises in the absence of an affirmative manifestation of assent. At the Freedom from Contract Conference, eleven papers investigating this topic will be presented and discussed by distinguished scholars from leading universities.
Presenters:
- Ian Ayres and Greg Klass, Yale University: Promissory Fraud Liability
- Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Michigan: Agreeing to DisagreeFilling Gaps in Deliberately Incomplete Contracts
- Lisa Bernstein, University of Chicago (Title Forthcoming)
- Melvin Eisenberg, University of California at Berkeley: Revocability and Revocation
- Clayton Gillette, New York University: Should Rolling Contracts be Enforced?
- Juliet Kostritsky, Case Western Reserve University: Analyzing Legal Intervention in an Imperfect World: What to do when Parties have not Achieved Bargains or have Drafted Incomplete Contracts
- Roy Kreitner, Tel-Aviv University: Fear of Contract
- Stewart Macaulay, University of Wisconsin: Freedom from Contract: Solutions in Search of a Problem?
- Todd Rakoff, Harvard University: Is Freedom from Contract Necessarily a Libertarian Freedom?
- Robert Scott and Paul Stephan, University of Virginia: The Theory of Self-Enforcing Indefinite Agreements and Its Application to International Treaties
- James J. White, University of Michigan (Title Forthcoming)
Commentators: Brian Bix, University of Minnesota; Jean Braucher, University of Arizona; David Campbell, Cardiff University; Kevin Davis, University of Toronto; Jason Johnston, University of Pennsylvania; Charles Knapp, University of California, Hastings; Iain Ramsay, York University; and William Whitford, University of Wisconsin.
Sessions are free; tickets for the Saturday banquet are $35. Space is limited and advance registration is advised.
To register and for view more information, please visit http://www.law.umich.edu/CentersAndPrograms/olin/conferences.htm.
For additional information, please contact Brian Larson, Wisconsin Law Review, btlarso1@wisc.edu, or c/o Wisconsin Law Review, University of Wisconsin Law School, 975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706-1399.
The Symposium is Sponsored by the Wisconsin Law Review, the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at the University of Michigan, and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Submitted by on November 25, 2003
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