Hanoch Dagan is one of the world's leading private law theorists. He is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and former dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Dagan has written five books across the landscape of private law topics and has published over seventy articles in major law reviews and journals. His most recent book is Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013). Michael Heller is one of America's leading authorities on property. He is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law and former Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School. In The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (2008), Heller sets out a market paradox that he discovered: private ownership usually creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect - it creates gridlock.

'For the past four decades contract theorists have debated the relative merits of welfarist and moral theories of contract. In The Choice Theory of Contracts, Dagan and Heller offer an imaginative and original argument that seeks to accommodate these two seemingly irreconcilable normative views. By situating contractual freedom as the foundation of both utilitarian and communitarian contract norms, Dagan and Heller seek a grand accommodation in which the state creates choice preserving defaults. In the process, they provide the uninitiated reader a lively and very accessible review of contemporary contract theories.' Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott, Yale Law School and Robert E. Scott, Alfred McCormack Professor, Columbia Law School

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Autonomy as a Contract Value: 1. The challenge of autonomy; 2. Promise theory; 3. Transfer theory; 4. Recovering autonomy; Part II. The Goods of Contract: 5. Utility; 6. Community; Part III. The Choice Theory of Contracts: 7. Contractual freedom; 8. How contract values relate; 9. Contract spheres; 10. Contract types; 11. Market for new types; 12. Choice theory in practice; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Hanoch Dagan is one of the world's leading private law theorists. He is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and former dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Dagan has written five books across the landscape of private law topics and has published over seventy articles in major law reviews and journals. His most recent book is Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013). Michael Heller is one of America's leading authorities on property. He is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law and former Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School. In The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (2008), Heller sets out a market paradox that he discovered: private ownership usually creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect - it creates gridlock.

'For the past four decades contract theorists have debated the relative merits of welfarist and moral theories of contract. In The Choice Theory of Contracts, Dagan and Heller offer an imaginative and original argument that seeks to accommodate these two seemingly irreconcilable normative views. By situating contractual freedom as the foundation of both utilitarian and communitarian contract norms, Dagan and Heller seek a grand accommodation in which the state creates choice preserving defaults. In the process, they provide the uninitiated reader a lively and very accessible review of contemporary contract theories.' Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott, Yale Law School and Robert E. Scott, Alfred McCormack Professor, Columbia Law School

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Autonomy as a Contract Value: 1. The challenge of autonomy; 2. Promise theory; 3. Transfer theory; 4. Recovering autonomy; Part II. The Goods of Contract: 5. Utility; 6. Community; Part III. The Choice Theory of Contracts: 7. Contractual freedom; 8. How contract values relate; 9. Contract spheres; 10. Contract types; 11. Market for new types; 12. Choice theory in practice; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Hanoch Dagan is one of the world's leading private law theorists. He is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and former dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Dagan has written five books across the landscape of private law topics and has published over seventy articles in major law reviews and journals. His most recent book is Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013). Michael Heller is one of America's leading authorities on property. He is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law and former Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School. In The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (2008), Heller sets out a market paradox that he discovered: private ownership usually creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect - it creates gridlock.

'For the past four decades contract theorists have debated the relative merits of welfarist and moral theories of contract. In The Choice Theory of Contracts, Dagan and Heller offer an imaginative and original argument that seeks to accommodate these two seemingly irreconcilable normative views. By situating contractual freedom as the foundation of both utilitarian and communitarian contract norms, Dagan and Heller seek a grand accommodation in which the state creates choice preserving defaults. In the process, they provide the uninitiated reader a lively and very accessible review of contemporary contract theories.' Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott, Yale Law School and Robert E. Scott, Alfred McCormack Professor, Columbia Law School

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Autonomy as a Contract Value: 1. The challenge of autonomy; 2. Promise theory; 3. Transfer theory; 4. Recovering autonomy; Part II. The Goods of Contract: 5. Utility; 6. Community; Part III. The Choice Theory of Contracts: 7. Contractual freedom; 8. How contract values relate; 9. Contract spheres; 10. Contract types; 11. Market for new types; 12. Choice theory in practice; Conclusion; Notes; Index.