Over-Reliance under Contractual Disgorgement

A well-known result in economic analysis of contract law is that expectation damages lead to over-reliance by the non-breaching party. Recently, the contractual disgorgement remedy has attracted much attention from scholars, yet no attempt has been made to analyze reliance investment under this reme...

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Published in:American law and economics review 2018-04, Vol.20 (1), p.82-104
Main Authors: Givati, Yehonatan, Kaplan, Yotam
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