Essays on Contract Law

Savigny's Family/Patrimony Distinction and its Place in the Global Genealogy of Classical Legal Thought, 58 Am. J. Comp. L. 811 (2010)

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Debtor Protection Rules in Subprime Market Default Situations, in Eric Belsky and Nicolas Retsinas, eds., Building Assets, Building Credit (Brookings Institution Press 2005)

Thirty Years Later, a preface to the published manuscript The Rise & Fall of Classical Legal Thought (Beard Books, Washington DC, 2006)

The Limited Equity Cooperative as a Vehicle for Affordable Housing in a Race and Class Divided Society, 46 Howard L. J. 85 (2002)

The Political Stakes in “Merely Technical” Issues of Contract Law, 1 European Review of Private Law 7 (2001)

• Italian translation: La Funzione Ideologica del Tecnicismo nel Diritto dei Contratti, 20 Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato 317 (2002)

From the Will Theory to the Principle of Private Autonomy: Lon Fuller’s Consideration and Form, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 94 (2000)

Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives as a Mode of Privatization, in G. Alexander & G. Skapska, eds., A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (Routledge, 1994), with Leopold Specht

Neither the Market nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues, in G. Alexander & G. Skapska, eds., A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (Routledge, 1994)

The Effect of the Warranty of Habitability on Low Income Housing: "Milking" and Class Violence, 15 Fla. St. L. Rev. 485 (1987)

Distributive and Paternalist Motives in Contract and Tort Law, with Special Reference to Compulsory Terms and Unequal Bargaining Power, 41 Maryland L. Rev. 563 (1982)

Form & Substance in Private Law Adjudication, 89 Harv. L. Rev. 1685 (1976)

• Partially reprinted in Critical Legal Studies (A. Hutchinson, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, Toronto, 1989)
• Italian translation: Forma e Sostanza nella Giurisdizione di Diritto Privato (A. Carrino, trans., Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples, 1992)
• Partial Spanish translation: Forma y Sustancia en la Adjudicación de Derecho Privado, in Sociología Jurídica, Teoría y Sociología del Derecho en Estados Unidos (M. Villegas, ed., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Derecho, Bogotá, 2001)

The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought, unpublished manuscript, 1975; reformatted 1998, published with a new preface by the author, "Thirty Years Later" (Washington D.C.: Beard Books, 2006)

• Cover and Contents

• Chapter 1. Legal Consciousness

• Chapter 2. Pre-Classical Public Law

• Chapter 3. Pre-Classical Private Law: Property

• Chapter 4. Pre-Classical Private Law: The Transformation of Contract

• Chapter 5. The Integration of Classical Legal Thought