Common Law and Contracts

Common Law and Contracts

What kinds of agreements are covered by the law of contracts? Professor Richard Epstein of NYU School of Law gives a basic definition, then goes through a variety of transactions, from simple to complex, where contracts with increasing degrees of formality are used. What role do contracts play in the greater social order? What net benefits do they have? Watch to learn more.

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9 of 11: Dealing with third party interests in contracts: Assignment & third-party beneficiaries [No. 86]

What creates third-party interest in a contract, and when is that interest binding? Professor Richard Epstein of NYU School of Law lays out two key ways that third-party interest is created: assignment and third-party beneficiary, and explains how an ... What creates third-party interest in a contract, and when is that interest binding? Professor Richard Epstein of NYU School of Law lays out two key ways that third-party interest is created: assignment and third-party beneficiary, and explains how and when they are binding and when they are not.

Professor Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

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