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Twenty-First-Century Contract Law Is a Law of Agreements, Not Debts: A Response to Lewinsohn

Curtis Bridgeman

Jed Lewinsohn’s excellent article on consideration offers groundbreaking work on the concept of exchange but errs in seeing the motivational account of consideration as a bad fit with doctrine. I argue that the motivational account provides a more natural justification for both consideration and for…