Private Law Theory

Introduction:
On the occasion of Stewart Macaulay’s official retirement from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he has taught since 1957, his friends and colleagues organized a conference to revisit his early scholarship. Macaulay has been a prolific writer throughout his long career and, notwithstanding the fact of his retirement, he continues to write and teach at Wisconsin. More than a half-century of excellent scholarship is a lot from which to choose. The conference organizers’ decision to focus on his early work was an excellent choice, allowing a degree of reflection and a tracing of Macaulay’s influence that only time could allow. ‘Sixteen well-known contracts scholars from the UK and the USA were invited to present papers and all responded affirmatively.’ …” (more)

Richard RW Brooks, On the Empirical and the Lyrical: Review of Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay (Edited by Jean Braucher, John Kidwell & William C Whitford). Wisconsin Law Review 2013:1299.

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