Foundations of Public Contracts

Foundations of Public Contracts
Author: Giacomuzzi, José G.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-05-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1800880928

This Research Agenda documents and establishes the thinking of leading scholars in the field of political marketing and related sub-fields, also encompassing additional social science disciplines that intersect at the crossroads of political marketing.

Foundations of Public Contracts

Foundations of Public Contracts
Author: José G. Giacomuzzi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781800880917

Foundations of Public Contracts undertakes an in-depth survey of the foundations of public contracts in three legal systems: American, French, and Brazilian. The comparison of these three systems highlights the legal phenomenon's historical, philosophical, and social origins. The book transcends the functional commonalities to penetrate into how American, French, and Brazilian lawyers think about the essence of government contracts law, the phenomenon of exceptionalism; preferential treatment that public procurement law provides to the state in its contractual dealing with private entities. Comparative public law professors and students will find great value in this exploration of the material sources of public contracts, an area that has heretofore received little attention in legal academia.

Wrap Contracts

Wrap Contracts
Author: Nancy S. Kim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-09-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199399115

When you visit a website, check your email, or download music, you enter into a contract that you probably don't know exists. "Wrap contracts" - shrinkwrap, clickwrap and browsewrap agreements - are non-traditional contracts that look nothing like legal documents. Contrary to what courts have held, they are not "just like" other standard form contracts, and consumers do not perceive them the same way. Wrap contract terms are more aggressive and permit dubious business practices, such as the collection of personal information and the appropriation of user-created content. In digital form, wrap contracts are weightless and cheap to reproduce. Given their low cost and flexible form, businesses engage in "contracting mania" where they use wrap contracts excessively and in a wide variety of contexts. Courts impose a duty to read upon consumers but don't impose a duty upon businesses to make contracts easy to read. The result is that consumers are subjected to onerous legalese for nearly every online interaction. In Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications, Nancy Kim explains why wrap contracts were created, how they have developed, and what this means for society. She explains how businesses and existing law unfairly burden users and create a coercive contracting environment that forces users to "accept" in order to participate in modern life. Kim's central thesis is that how a contract is presented affects and reveals the intent of the parties. She proposes doctrinal solutions - such as the duty to draft reasonably, specific assent, and a reconceptualization of unconscionability - which fairly balance the burden of wrap contracts between businesses and consumers.

The Constitutional Foundations of European Contract Law

The Constitutional Foundations of European Contract Law
Author: Kathleen Gutman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2014-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199698309

Examining the constitutional foundations of European contract law, this book provides a thorough assessment of the extent of the European Union's competence to regulate contracts and offers a comprehensive comparative study of the contract law framework in the United States.

Public Procurement and Contract Administration

Public Procurement and Contract Administration
Author: Jorge A. Lynch T.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2017-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781520977638

This book gives you a brief introduction to public procurement and contract administration. It covers the public procurement cycle; procurement planning; requesting, receiving and evaluating bids and proposals; contract negotiations and award; and contract administration (from commencement to close-out). A glossary of terms used in the text is also included, with suggestions for further reading..

Psychological Contracts in Organizations

Psychological Contracts in Organizations
Author: Denise Rousseau
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1995-05-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780803971059

Bringing together a wide range of theory from social and cognitive psychology, organizational behaviour, organizational learning and the management of change, this text draws useful conclusions about important psychological processes.

Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts

Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts
Author: Gabriella M. Racca
Publisher: Emile Bruylant
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2014
Genre: Government purchasing
ISBN: 9782802742944

Ensuring efficiency and integrity throughout the public procurement cycle is essential to a sound allocation of taxpayers' money. Yet public contracts are plagued by corruption, collusion, favoritism and conflicts of interest. This book addresses these problems from sophisticated, academic, institutional and practical perspectives. The book's ambition is to shape the public debate in the procurement community by highlighting how corruption implies violations of fundamental rights and undermines the fiduciary relationship between citizens and public institutions. The analysis underlines how corruption may stem from - and yet be resolved - through the exercise of discretion in the public procurement system. Focusing on the effects of public corruption and private collusion on procurement integrity, the book marks the features of misconduct and suggests needed counter-measures. The work also emphasizes that the pursuit of efficiency and integrity in public contracts must be rooted in professional skills, and in ethical regulations and training for public officers. The research reflected in these pieces cornes from sources around the world, and offers an excellent foundation for further development of these topics. Expanding on prior research, this volume builds on a more active transnational academic cooperation and exchanges of ideas on integrity in public contracts for the benefit of citizens.