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Bentham House Annual Conference 2013
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| The Programme | |
| Friday 10 May 2013 | |
| 08:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 | Welcome James Penner (Head of Department, UCL Laws) |
| 09:05 | Thematic Introduction Gregory Klass (Georgetown) |
| 09:15 | Chair: John Tasioulas (UCL) Joseph Raz (Columbia and KCL) 'Is there a Reason to Keep a Promise?' Dori Kimel (Oxford) 'Promise, Contract, Personal Autonomy, and the Freedon to Change One's Mind' |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:15 | Chair: Irit Samet (KCL) David Owens (Reading) 'Does a Promise Transfer a Right?' James Penner (UCL) 'Promises, Agreements, and Contracts' |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Chair: Florian Wagner-von Papp (UCL) Aditi Bagchi (Fordham) 'Distributive Justice and Contract' Avery Katz (Columbia) 'Economic Foundations of Contract Law' |
| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:45 | Chair: Lucinda Miller (UCL) Lisa Bernstein (Chicago) 'Merchant Law in a Modern Economy' Jody Kraus (Columbia) 'Virtue Ethics and Pluralism in Contract Theory' Charlie Webb (LSE) 'Contract as Fact and as Reason' |
| 18:00 | Drinks Reception |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Saturday 11 May | |
| 09:00 | Chair: Catherine MacMillan (QMUL) Randy Barnett (Georgetown): 'Contract Is Not Promise; Contract Is Consent' Charles Fried (Harvard) 'The Ambitions of Contract as Promise Thirty Years On' |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Chair: Ben McFarlane (UCL) Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford) 'Vitiating Factors in Contract Law' Margaret Jane Radin (Michigan) 'An Analytical Framework for Legal Evaluation of Boilerplate' |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Chair: Hugh Collins (LSE) Daniel Markovits (Yale) 'Good Faith as Contract’s Core Value' Liam Murphy (NYU) 'The Practice of Promise and Contract' Robert Stevens (Oxford) |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:45 | Chair: Robert Chambers (UCL) Gregory Klass (Georgetown) 'Efficient Breach is Dead; Long Live Efficient Breach' George Letsas (UCL) and Prince Saprai (UCL) 'Mitigation, Fairness and Contract Law' Stephen Smith (McGill) 'The Relationship Between Rights and Remedies in the Law of Contract' |
| 18:00 | Drinks Reception |