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The Death of Contract is a masterful commentary on the common law, especially the law of promissory obligation known as contracts.
In this slim and lively book, the late Yale law professor Grant Gilmore examines the birth, development, death, and even the resurrection of a body of American law. It is both a modern-day reply to and a funeral oration for an American legal classic—Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Common Law.
