Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I Free Bargaining and Formalism
6. Contracts Small and Contract Large: Contract Law through the Lens of Laissez-Faire 25
7. The Decline of Formality in Contract Law 61
8. External Critiques of Laissez-Faire Contract Values 78
9. In Defense of the Old Order 93
10. The Limits of Freedom of Contract in the Age of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism 103
11. II Bargaining around Tort Law
12. Courts and the Tort-Contract Boundary in Product Liability 119
13. Commodifying Liability 139
14. III Contracting for Land Use Law
15. Zoning by Private Contract 157
16. Dealing with the NIMBY Problem 177
17. Devolutionary Proposals and Contractarian Principles 184
18. The (Limited) Ability of Urban Neighbors to Contract for the Provision of Local Public Goods 192
19. IV Free Bargaining in Family Law
20. A Contract Theory of Marriage 201
21. Marriage as a Signal 245
22. Family Law and Social Norms 256
23. Contracting around No-Fault Divorce 275
24. V Bargaining around Bankruptcy Reorganization Law
25. Contracting for Bankruptcy Systems 281
26. Free Contracting in Bankruptcy 301
27. Free Contracting in Bankruptcy at Home and Abroad 311
28. VI Choosing Law by Contract
29. Contract and Jurisdictional Freedom 325
30. A Comment on Contract and Jurisdictional Competition 349
31. Choice of Law as a Precommitment Device 357
32. Corporate Law as the Paradigm for Contractual Choice of Law 370
33. Notes 387
34. Contributors 457
35. Index 459