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February 2-3, 2024
About the Workshop
Every year BCPLT brings to Berkeley a group of prominent contract theorists from both the US and elsewhere to present and discuss original papers in contract theory, broadly defined.
Organizing Committee
Hanoch Dagan
Professor of Law & Director, Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory
Berkeley Law
Aditi Bagchi
Professor of Law
Fordham Law
Roy Kreitner
Professor of Law
Tel-Aviv University
Program
The program features 6 sessions in which we will discuss 12 papers dedicating 50 minutes to each. The discussion will begin with the commentator who will have 15 minutes to speak, followed by a brief response (5 to 10 minutes) by the author and then an open discussion. We obviously encourage all participants to read the papers in advance to facilitate discussion during the conference.
Friday, February 2, 2024
9:00 am: Gathering in Goldberg Room
9:30 am – 11:10 am: Session 1
Presenter: Daniel Markovits: Promise as Contract
Commenter: Tom Christiano
Presenter: Mirthe Jiwa: Incapacity and Supported-Decision Making: From Embarrassment to Model for Private Autonomy?
Commenter: Felipe Jiménez
11:10 am – 11:30 am: Break
11:30 am – 1:10 pm: Session 2
Presenter: Rebecca Stone: Tort as Contract
Commenter: Alan Schwartz
Presenter: Nick Sage: Is Contract Law Liberal?
Commenter: Sabine Tsuruda
1:10 pm – 2:10 pm: Lunch on the Steinhart Terrace
2:10 pm – 3:50 pm: Session 3
Presenter: Ciara Kennefick: The Just Price in Salvage Contracts
Commenter: Ethan Leib
Presenter: Martijn Hesselink: The Revolution
Commenter: Nathan Oman
3:50 pm – 4:10 pm: Break
4:10 pm – 5:50 pm: Session 4
Presenters: James Gordley & Hao Jiang: The Misconceived Doctrine of Causa and the Incoherence of Contemporary Contract Law
Commenter: David Grewal
Presenter: Chris Mills: Two Cheers for the Overborne Will
Commenter: Roy Kreitner
6:15 pm – 8:15 pm: Dinner at Women’s Faculty Club, Berkeley
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Saturday, February 3, 2024
9:15 am – 10:55 am: Session 5
Presenter: Arie Rosen: The Bifurcated Structure of Contract Law and the Limits of Contract Law Theory
Commenter: Abbye Atkinson
Presenter: Crescente Molina: Contracting Without Promising
Commenter: Lyn Tjon Soei Len
10:55 am – 11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:55 pm: Session 6
Presenter: Greg Klass: Convergence by Design: Who Contracts and the Plural Purposes of Contract Law
Commenter: Prince Saprai
Presenter: Mark Gergen: Objects of Consent in Contract Law
Commenter: Aditi Bagchi
12:55 pm: Boxed Lunch Pick-up on the Steinhart Terrace
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Participants
Abbye Atkinson (Berkeley)
Adam Badawi (Berkeley)
Aditi Bagchi (Fordham)
Andrew Bradt (Berkeley)
Elena Chachko (Berkeley)
Thomas Christiano (Arizona, Philosophy)
Hanoch Dagan (Berkeley)
James Gordley (Tulane)
Mark Gergen (Berkeley)
David S Grewal (Berkeley)
Martijn Hesselink (European University Institute)
Hao Jiang (Bocconi)
Felipe Jiménez (USC)
Mirthe Jiwa (Amsterdam)
Ciara Kennefick (Oxford)
Greg Klass (Georgetown)
Roy Kreitner (Tel-Aviv)
Christopher Kutz (Berkeley)
Daniel Lee (Berkeley)
Ethan Leib (Fordham)
Lyn Tjon Soei Len (Ohio)
Daniel Markovits (Yale)
Christopher Mills (Warwick)
Crescente Molina (Rutgers)
Nathan Oman (William & Mary)
Diana S. Reddy (Berkeley)
Arie Rosen (Auckland)
Nick Sage (London School of Economics)
Prince Saprai (University College London)
Alan Schwartz (Yale)
Rebecca Stone (UCLA)
Sabine Tsuruda (Queen’s, Canada)
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Conference Papers
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