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
Elizabeth J. Boalt Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding 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.
Thursday, March 6, 2025 – Room 12
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: The Kadish Lecture
Presenter: David Enoch, A (Somewhat) Unified Theory of Flawed Consent
Friday, March 7, 2025 – Room 132, South Addition
9:00 am: Gathering
9:30 am – 11:10 am: Session 1
Presenter: Sabine Tsuruda: Contract Theory for the First Amendment
Commenter: Kevin Davis
Presenter: Aditi Bagchi: Compulsory Contract
Commenter: Abbye Atkinson
11:10 am – 11:40 am: Break
11:40 am – 1:20 pm: Session 2
Presenter: Lorenz Kähler: Are There Reasons in Contract?
Commenter: Chris Kutz
Presenter: Hanoch Dagan and Michael Heller: Liberal Contract Theory
Commenter: Thomas Cristiano
1:20 pm – 2:50 pm: Lunch
2:50 pm – 4:30 pm: Session 3
Presenter: Diana Reddy: Transaction Benefits at Work: Regulating the Future of Work for the Future of Society
Commenter: Ethan Leib
Presenter: Brian Bix: The Moral Obligation to Perform Contracts
Commenter: Hao Jiang
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Break
5:00 pm – 5:50 pm: Session 4
Presenters: Brittany Farr: Warranties of Soundness: Gendered Risk in the Commercial Law of Slavery
Commenter: Nick Sage
6:15 pm – 8:15 pm: Dinner at Faculty Club, Berkeley – Howard Room
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Saturday, March 8, 2025 – Faculty Club, Seaborg Room
9:15 am – 10:55 am: Session 5
Presenter: Tamar Kricheli-Katz: Poor Disclosures
Commenter: Chris Mills
Presenter: Alan Schwartz: The Logic of Legal Formalism
Commenter: Kelvin Kwok
10:55 am – 11:25 am: Break
11:25 am – 1:05 pm: Session 6
Presenter: Prince Saprai: Trust In Promise And Contract: One Sense Or Two?
Commenter: Orit Gan
Presenter: Felipe Jiménez: The Power to Contract
Commenter: Arie Rosen
1:05 pm: Lunch
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Participants
Abbye Atkinson (Berkeley)
Aditi Bagchi (Fordham)
Brian Bix (Minnesota)
Thomas Christiano (Arizona)
Hanoch Dagan (Berkeley)
Kevin E. Davis (NYU)
Melvin Eisenberg (Berkeley)
Brittany Farr (NYU)
Orit Gan (Sapir)
Mark Gergen (Berkeley)
James Gordley (Tulane)
David Grewal (Berkeley)
Michael A. Heller (Columbia)
Martijn Hesselink (European University Institute)
Hao Jiang (Bocconi)
Felipe Jiménez (USC)
Mirthe Jiwa (Amsterdam)
Julian Jonker (Wharton)
Lorenz Kähler (Breman)
Greg Klass (Georgetown)
Roy Kreitner (Tel-Aviv)
Tamar Kricheli-Katz (Tel-Aviv)
Chris Kutz (Berkeley)
Kelvin Kwok (Hong Kong)
Dan Lee (Berkeley)
Ethan Leib (Fordham)
Chris Mills (Warwick)
Manisha Padi (Berkeley)
Diana S. Reddy (Berkeley)
Arie Rosen (Auckland)
Nick Sage (London School of Economics)
Prince Saprai (University College London)
Alan Schwartz (Yale)
Sabine Tsuruda (Toronto)
Daniel Viehoff (Berkeley)
Conference Papers
Papers can only be accessed with a password. Please click the page above to access the papers.