Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
Contract law and theory have traditionally paid little attention to the processes by which contracts are made. Instead, contracts among sophisticated parties are assumed to be full articulations of the desires of the parties; whatever the process, the outcome is the same. This article compares sovereign debt contracts from US and UK firms, with different production processes, that are trying to do the same thing under very similar legal regimes. We find that that the production process likely matters quite a bit to the final form that contracts take.
Disciplines
Contracts | Law | Law and Economics
Recommended Citation
Stephen J. Choi, Robert E. Scott & G. Mitu Gulati,
Investigating the Contract Production Process,
Capital Markets Law Journal, Vol. 16, p. 414, 2021; University of Virginia School of Law Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 2021-39; University of Virginia School of Law, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2021-16
(2021).
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