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21 février 2013
- handle: 10670/1.c71778
- isbn: 9782874632013
- eisbn: 9782875581778
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Wim Decock, « Freedom. The legacy of early modern scholasticism to contract law », Presses universitaires de Louvain, ID : 10670/1.c71778
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By taking the audacious step of publishing James Gordley’s volume on the Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine in 1991, Oxford University Press must have thought itself to be taking a well-calculated risk. After all, owing to the bright new ideas it contains, Gordley’s book promised not only to become a best-seller for its own part, but, in addition, to usher in the very lucrative business of re-writing and re-editing many a traditional textbook on the history of private law in bo...