Minimum contract justice : a capabilities perspective on sweatshops and consumer contracts / Lyn KL Tjon Soei Len.
2017
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Title
Minimum contract justice : a capabilities perspective on sweatshops and consumer contracts / Lyn KL Tjon Soei Len.
Published
Oxford, UK ; Portland, OR, USA : Hart Publishing, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
KJC6791 .T58 2017
ISBN
9781782257097 hardcover alkaline paper
1782257098 hardcover alkaline paper
1782257098 hardcover alkaline paper
Description
xii, 160 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)964661132
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Tjon Soei Len, Lyn K.L. (Lyn Kim Lan), 1984- Minimum contract justice Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781782257103 (DLC) 2016055157
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
v
List of Cases
xi
Introduction
1
1.
Minimum Contract Justice: Context and Outline
7
I.
Questions in a Broader Context
7
II.
Tracing Developments in European Contract Law
11
A.
Maturing European Model of Just Market Conduct
14
B.
Private Law Constitutionalisation
16
III.
Market Conduct in Europe in a Global Setting
17
IV.
Outline
19
A.
Capabilities Approach to Minimum Contract Justice
21
B.
Sweatshops as an Example
23
C.
Contractual Immorality in Europe: A Sweatshop Test Case
23
D.
Frontiers of Minimum Contract Justice
24
2.
Minimum Contract Justice: A Capabilities Approach
25
I.
Development of the Capabilities Concept and Capabilities Perspectives on Justice
26
A.
Capabilities and Alternative Approaches to Justice
26
B.
Capabilities Based Perspective on Justice and Contract Law
28
II.
Capabilities Based Approach to Minimum Justice
30
A.
Central Capabilities
31
B.
Moral Content: Some Freedoms are Bad
34
C.
Equal Respect in a Pluralistic Society
37
D.
Capabilities Approach to Justice Beyond Borders
39
III.
Contract Law and the Responsibility Bearing Structure of Society
42
A.
Significance of Contractual Relations for Human Capabilities
45
B.
Defining Structure of Contractual Relations
48
C.
Diverging Conceptions of Contract Law
50
D.
Capabilities Based Understanding of Minimum Contract Justice and Immorality
53
3.
Sweatshops and Consumer Contracts
59
I.
Sweatshops
60
II.
Context: Sweatshops in the Garment Industry
64
A.
Outsourcing
64
B.
Bargaining Power
66
C.
Fashionability and Flexibility
67
III.
Debate on the Moral Status of Sweatshops
68
A.
`It's a Choice' Argument
69
B.
`Better Than Nothing' Argument
71
C.
Impossibility Argument
72
D.
Argument from Relativism
74
E.
Exploitation Argument
75
F.
(Unjust) Background Conditions Argument
77
IV.
Sweatshops as Contractual Externalities?
79
A.
Sweatshops and Slavery as Subjects of Moral Debate
79
B.
Sweatshops and Slavery as Externalities?
81
C.
Contractual Externalities: A Capabilities Perspective
82
D.
Raising the Question of Contractual Immorality in Europe
85
4.
Potential Frontiers of Contract Justice: A Sweatshop Case Study
87
I.
Contractual Immorality and its Potential Frontiers
88
A.
Beyond the Frontiers of Knowledge
89
B.
Beyond the Frontiers of Contract Law: Third Parties
91
C.
Beyond the Frontiers of Europe: Geography
92
D.
Beyond the Frontiers of Discipline: The Legal and Moral Realms
93
II.
Methodology
94
A.
Functional Method
94
B.
Purpose and Potential Criticisms
96
C.
Case design
97
i.
Matters of Scope
98
ii.
Criticism: Realistic Representation and Testability?
101
5.
Contractual Immorality in Europe
105
I.
European Instruments of Contract Law
105
II.
Netherlands
109
A.
Contractual Immorality: Content and Necessary Implications
110
B.
Exploitation of Third Parties
111
C.
What is Foreseeable?
112
D.
How to Concretise Good Morals?
114
E.
Concluding Remarks: Contractual Invalidity on the Basis of Third Party Exploitation
117
III.
Germany
117
A.
Das Gesamtcharakter: The Interests of Third Parties and Society
119
B.
Knowledge Requirements
119
C.
Good Morals: die Gesamtbeurteilung
120
D.
German Interest: Borax and Nigerian Cultural Heritage
122
E.
Concluding Remarks: Overcoming the Absence of a German Interest
124
IV.
France
125
A.
La Cause Illicite
127
B.
Un Mobile Determinant?
128
C.
Knowledge Requirements: Only One Party
130
D.
L'interet General: l'Ordre Public et les Bonnes Mœurs
130
E.
Concluding Remarks: The Centrality of General Interest
131
V.
England
132
A.
Contracts Contrary to Public Policy
133
B.
Knowledge of Both Contracting Parties
135
C.
Concluding Remarks: Unlikely Invalidity in Light of Current Heads of Public Policy
136
VI.
Comparative Conclusions
137
A.
Knowledge
137
B.
Sweatshop Location
138
C.
Concluding Remarks
139
6.
Conclusion
141
I.
Ranking of Contractual Regimes Based on Minimum Contract Justice
141
II.
Way Forward
145
Bibliography
149
Index
157