Fault in Contract Law

September 26-27, 2008
Location: The University of Chicago Law School

Introduction | Speaker Biographies | Abstracts
Agenda

Agenda (tentative)

Friday, September 26

9:00 Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:45 Panel I

Eric Posner, Fault in Contract Law

Roy Kreitner, Fault at the Contract-Tort Interface

 11:00- 12:30  Panel II

Ariel Porat, A Comparative Fault Defense in Contract Law

Saul Levmore, Stipulated Damages, Super-Strict Liability, and Mitigation in Contract Law

2:00 – 4:00     Panel III

Richard Craswell, When is Willful Breach ‘Willful’? A Puzzle and Two Different Economic Solutions

Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar, An Information-Based Theory of Willful Breach

Peter Siegelman & Steven Thel, Willfulness Versus Expectation: A Promisor-Based Defense of Willful Breach Doctrine

2:15 – 5:45     Panel IV

Stefan Grundmann, The Fault Principle as the Chameleon of Contract Law: A Market Function Approach

Seana Shiffrin, Why Breach of Contract May Be Immoral

Saturday, September 27

9:00 – 10:30  Panel V

Richard Epstein, The Many Different Faces of Fault in Contract Law: Or How to Do Economics Right, Without Really Trying

George Cohen, The Fault That Lies Within Our Contract Law

10:45-12:45   Panel  VI       

Robert Scott, In (Partial) Defense of Strict Liability in Contract

Richard Posner, Let Us Never Blame a Contract Breaker

Please direct any questions on the Symposium to mlr.symposium@umich.edu.