‘Introducing our Virtual Symposium: Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay’

“This symposium marks the publication of Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay: On the Empirical and the Lyrical (Hart Publishing 2013), a volume edited by Jean Braucher, John Kidwell, and William C Whitford. Starting next week and continuing for several weeks, this blog will publish entries both by contributors to the book and by others who have engaged with Macaulay’s work in the field of contracts. Fifty years ago, the American Sociological Review published Macaulay’s Non-Contractual Relations in Business – A Preliminary Study, an empirical examination of the use and, more strikingly, the non-use of contracts in business. One of the 20 most cited articles in the history of ASR, its influence has grown with each passing decade …” (more)

[ContractsProf Blog, 15 August]

First posted 2013-08-16 17:38:48

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