Interpersonal Trust and Contract Theory Redux

Anidjar, Leon

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Interpersonal Trust and Contract Theory Redux

dc.contributor.author	Anidjar, Leon
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dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-09T15:43:56Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-09T15:43:56Z
dc.date.issued	2021-07-31
dc.description.abstract	The proposition that mutual loyalty facilities cooperation required for contract performance is a truism, almost a cliché. Jurists have extensively debated the role of honesty, collaboration, and reciprocity for supporting decent contractual relations. Surprisingly, contract law scholars have not developed a detailed account of interpersonal trust yet in a one-shot contract that is outside the frame of relational transactions, or the common understanding of fiduciary relations. While theoreticians acknowledge the significance of interpersonal trust as a core component of any contract theory, they fail to develop a comprehensive understanding of such concept and how it is integrated into a descriptive approach of contract law. This Article is devoted to exploring the fundamental perceptions of moral, economic, and behavioral interpersonal trust as a basis for establishing a new framework on the role of faith in contract law and theory. I show that consolidating the studies of interpersonal trust in the fundamental assumptions of promissory, efficiency, and fairness theories may fill this void and resolve some difficulties regarding their analytical force of different contract doctrines as well as provide a better justification for various transactions between a variety of contractors’ types in different legal systems.
dc.description.peerreviewed	yes
dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	Anidjar, L. Y. (2020). Interpersonal Trust and Contract Theory Redux. S. Cal. Interdisc. LJ, 30, 1.
dc.identifier.issn	1077-0704
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3744
dc.journal.title	Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal
dc.language.iso	en
dc.page.total	41
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.department	Private & Business Law
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE Law School
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subject.keyword	Interdisciplinary studies of interpersonal trust
dc.subject.keyword	Interpersonal trust in short term one-shot contracts
dc.subject.keyword	Pluralism of contract law and theory
dc.title	Interpersonal Trust and Contract Theory Redux
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dc.volume.number	30
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