The Contract as Social Artifact

From: Law & Society Review | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

This article outlines a distinctive, albeit not entirely unprecedented, research agenda for the sociolegal study of contracts. In the past, law and society scholars have tended to examine contracts either through the intellectual history of contract doctrine "on the books" or through the empirica l study of how real-world exchange relations are governed "in action." Although both of these traditions have contributed greatly to our understanding of contract law, neither has devoted much attention to the most distinctive concrete product of contractual transactions-contract documents themselve s. ...

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