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41 Cardozo L. Rev. 1265 (2019-2020)
Contract's Revenge: The Waiver Society and the Death of Tort

handle is hein.journals/cdozo41 and id is 1305 raw text is: CONTRACT'S REVENGE: THE WAIVER SOCIETY AND THE DEATH OF TORT Ryan Martins,t Shannon Pricet & John Fabian Wittt TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................1266 I. CONTRACT'S RISE, CONTRACT'S FALL ........................................................................1269 A. Contract's Reign: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries............1269 B. The D eath of Contract .....................................................................................1275 II. CONTRACT'S VENGEANCE............................................................................................1280 A . D octrinal H istory..............................................................................................1282 1. The Myth of Strict Construction......................................................1282 2. Tunkl and the Public Interest............................................................1286 3. Freedom of Contract in the 1980s and 1990s.................................1290 4. T he R estatem ent.................................................................................1293 B . C urrent Landscape...........................................................................................1294 III. THE DEATH OF TORT? .................................................................................................1299 t J.D., Yale Law School, expected 2020. t J.D., Yale Law School, expected 2020. t Duffy Professor of Law and Head of Davenport College, Yale University, john.witt@yale.edu. Many thanks to Omri Ben-Shahar, Nora Engstrom, Ron Glazer, Ken Simons, Roseanna Sommers, and Tom Witt for helpful readings. 1265