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Yale Law School Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository Fa ulty Scholarship Series Yale Law School Fa ulty Scholarship 1-1-1974 The Death of Contract Robert W. Gordon Yale Law School Follow this and additional works at : http://digital /fss_papers Part of the Law Commons Re ommended Citation Gordon, Robert W., "The Death of Contract" (1974). Faculty Sc holarship Series. Paper 1376. http://digital /fss_papers/1376 This Article is brought to you for free and open a ess by the Yale Law School Fa ulty Scholarship at Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been a epted for inclusion in Fa ulty Scholarship Series by an authorized administrator of Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please ontact julian.aiken@. BOOK REVIEW THE DEATH OF CONTRACT. By Grant Gilmore.* Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 1974. Pp. x, 151. $8.00. The Death of Contractcollects Professor Gilmore's lectures given at Ohio State University Law School in 1970, with footnotes added to provide further explanation, qualification, and documentation. It is easy to tell that these were lectures, not because of their tone of urbane chattiness (Gilmore's gift of style makes some of his most technical work sound like Talleyrand's table talk), but because of the looseness of their design and casualness of their execution. The speaker frequently drops the thread of his narrative to break into anecdote or digression and, when he again picks up the narra- tive, it is not always by the same thread. But for all their infor- mality these lectures are of extraordinary interest. They tell us how a great commercial