Brian Bix and Francesco Parisi
Professor Brian Bix
Professor Francesco Parisi
Punishment and Its Relative Absence in Contract Law
Abstract
The conventional view rejects punitive damages for breach of contract on the ground that expectation damages adequately protect the promisee
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Following the great success of the prior conferences in, among other locations, Tubingen, Manchester, Oxford, Heidelberg, Kyushu, Madrid, Perth, Santiago, Rome, and Greensboro, it is my great pleasure to invite you to the 17th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting that
