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Fried, Charles was born on April 15, 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Arrived in United States, 1941, naturalized, 1948. Son of Anthony and Marta (Winterstein) Fried.
( This book displays the underlying structure of a compl...)
This book displays the underlying structure of a complex body of law and integrates that structure with moral principles. Charles Fried grounds the basic legal institution of contract in the morality of promise, under which individuals incur obligations freely by invoking each other's trust. Contract law and the promise principle are contrasted to the socially imposed obligations of compensation, restitution, and sharing, which determine the other basic institutions of private law, and which come into control where the parties have not succeeded in invoking the promise principle--as in the case of mistake or impossibility. Professor Fried illustrates his argument with a wide range of concrete examples; and opposing views of contract law are discussed in detail, particularly in connection with the doctrines of good faith, duress, and unconscionability. For law students and legal scholars, Contract as Promise offers a coherent survey of an important legal concept. For philosophers and social scientists, the book is a unique demonstration of the practical and detailed entailments of moral theory.
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(Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical found...)
Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract. This book provides two purposes regarding the complex legal institution of the contract. The first is the theoretical purpose to demonstrate how contract law can be traced to and is determined by a small number of basic moral principles. At the theory level the author shows that contract law does have an underlying, and unifying structure. The second is a pedagogic purpose to provide for students the underlying structure of contract law. At this level of doctrinal exposition the author shows that structure can be referred to moral principles. Together the two purposes support each other in an effective and comprehensive study of contract law. This second edition retains the original text, and includes a new Preface. It also includes a substantial new essay entitled Contract as Promise in the Light of Subsequent Scholarship--Especially Law and Economics which serves as a retrospective of the work accomplished in the last thirty years, while responding to present and future work in the field.
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(This book displays the underlying structure of a complex ...)
This book displays the underlying structure of a complex body of law and integrates that structure with moral principles. Charles Fried grounds the basic legal institution of contract in the morality of promise, under which individuals incur obligations freely by invoking each other's trust. Contract law and the promise principle are contrasted to the socially imposed obligations of compensation,...
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(As Reagan's solicitor general, Fried selected and argued ...)
As Reagan's solicitor general, Fried selected and argued cases involving some of the most important legal battles in our time: abortion, flag burning, civil rights, and capital punishment. In this provocative and lively memoir, he gives an inside look at how these controversial cases were part of the larger Reagan judicial revolution.
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(Two Harvard law professors make the case for improving to...)
Two Harvard law professors make the case for improving tort law to better protect individuals and discipline businesses.
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( In a few thousand words the Constitution sets up the g...)
In a few thousand words the Constitution sets up the government of the United States and proclaims the basic human and political rights of its people. From the interpretation and elaboration of those words in over 500 volumes of Supreme Court cases comes the constitutional law that structures our government and defines our individual relationship to that government. This book fills the need for an account of that law free from legal jargon and clear enough to inform the educated layperson, yet which does not condescend or slight critical nuance, so that its judgments and analyses will engage students, practitioners, judges, and scholars. Taking the reader up to and through such controversial recent Supreme Court decisions as the Texas sodomy case and the University of Michigan affirmative action case, Charles Fried sets out to make sense of the main topics of constitutional law: the nature of doctrine, federalism, separation of powers, freedom of expression, religion, liberty, and equality. Fried draws on his knowledge as a teacher and scholar, and on his unique experience as a practitioner before the Supreme Court, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and Solicitor General of the United States to offer an evenhanded account not only of the substance of constitutional law, but of its texture and underlying themes. His book firmly draws the reader into the heart of today's constitutional battles. He understands what moves today's Court and that understanding illuminates his analyses.
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( “An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do bat...)
“An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do battle with censors, regulators ... and sanctimonious busybodies of every stripe.”―New York Times In this impassioned defense of liberty, renowned Harvard law professor Charles Fried argues that the seemingly unimpeachable goals of equality and community are often the most potent rivals of freedom. Declared a “spirited, sophisticated manifesto” by the New York Times Book Review, Modern Liberty demonstrates how the dense tangle of government regulations both supports and threatens our personal liberties. Armed with Fried’s insights, readers will be better able to defend themselves against those on both the left and the right who would, even with the best intentions, restrict their liberty.
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Fried, Charles was born on April 15, 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Arrived in United States, 1941, naturalized, 1948. Son of Anthony and Marta (Winterstein) Fried.
AB, Princeton University, 1956. Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1958. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1961.
Bachelor of Laws, Columbia University, 1960. Doctor of Laws (honorary), New England School of Law, 1987. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Pepperdine University, 1994.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Suffolk University, 1996.
Law clerk to Honorary John M. Harlan Supreme Court of the United States Court, Washington, 1960. From assistant professor to professor law Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961-1985, Carter professor general jurisprudence, 1981-1985, 89-95, Carter professor emeritus, distinguished lecturer Law School, 1995-1999, Beneficial professor law, since 1999. Associate justice Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts, Boston, 1995-1999.
Fensterstock visiting professor law Columbia Law School, 2008—2009. Special consultant United States Department Treasury, 1961—1962. Consultant White House Office Policy Development, Washington, 1982, United States Department Transportation, Washington, 1981—1982, United States Department Justice, 1983, solicitor general, 1985—1989.
(Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical found...)
(As Reagan's solicitor general, Fried selected and argued ...)
( In a few thousand words the Constitution sets up the g...)
( This book displays the underlying structure of a compl...)
(This book displays the underlying structure of a complex ...)
(Two Harvard law professors make the case for improving to...)
(An interesting group of essays discussing moral choices, ...)
( “An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do bat...)
Author: An Anatomy of Values, 1970, Medical Experimentation: Personal Integrity and Social Policy, 1974, Right and Wrong, 1978, Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation, 1981, Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution, 1991, (with David Rosenberg) Making Tort Law: What Should Be Done and Who Should Do It, 2003, Saying What The Law Is: The Constitution in The Supreme Court, 2004, Modern Liberty, 2006. Co-author (with Gregery Fried) Because It Is Wrong: Torture Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, 2010. Contributor legal and philosophical journals.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Institute Medicine, American Law Institute, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Anne Sumerscale, June 13, 1959. Children: Gregory, Antonia.