Recent finance scholarship finds that countries with legal systems based on the common law provide better investor protections and have more developed financial markets than civil law countries. These findings echo Hayek's claims of the superiority of English to French legal institutions. In...

Recent finance scholarship finds that countries with legal systems based on the common law provide better investor protections and have more developed financial markets than civil law countries. These findings echo Hayek's claims of the superiority of English to French legal institutions. In...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Contract Law -- Chapter 2: General Principles of Common Law and Civil Law Jurisdictions -- Chapter 3: Contract Formation -- Chapter 4: Terms of a Contract -- Chapter 5: Defeating Contractual Liability -- Chapter 6: Discharge of...