protection: enforcing the existing contract protections that private employers currently provide employees when they report … address the weaknesses of these traditional remedies. This Article highlights the benefits of breach of contract claims based …

recourses. Within this apparent variety lurk two fundamental alternatives. The aggrieved party may (i) 'affirm' the contract and … seek money damages or specific performance; or (ii) 'disaffirm' the contract with the remedy of rescission and restitution …. This simple dichotomy of contract remedies applies broadly in both common law and civil law practice. We show here that …