What can contract law learn from #MeToo?

Grossi, R

What can contract law learn from #MeToo?

Grossi, R

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Publisher:: WILEY
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Law and Society, 2022, 49, (2), pp. 263-276
Issue Date:: 2022-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Grossi, R https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2011-9848
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-06T09:16:52Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-06T09:16:52Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-01
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Law and Society, 2022, 49, (2), pp. 263-276
dc.identifier.issn	0263-323X
dc.identifier.issn	1467-6478
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/164755
dc.description.abstract	In this article, I ask whether contract law can learn anything from the #MeToo discussions of consent. When we juxtapose consent in these two contexts, two issues emerge. The first is whether consent is a valuable ethical tool in helping us to determine whether an agreement is ‘good’. This article argues that just as patriarchy makes a mockery of consent in negotiating sexual encounters, so too do free market economics make a mockery of consent and freedom to contract. The second issue is whether consent should be understood objectively or subjectively. While favouring the centralizing of a subjective approach as #MeToo did, this article also affirms the critical critique of objectivity and questions the objectivity/subjectivity dichotomy altogether. This article ends with a nod towards the theorization of contract as feminist and as relational.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	WILEY
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Law and Society
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/jols.12358
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1602 Criminology, 1608 Sociology, 1801 Law
dc.subject.classification	Law
dc.title	What can contract law learn from #MeToo?
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	1608 Sociology
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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dc.date.updated	2023-01-06T09:16:51Z
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In this article, I ask whether contract law can learn anything from the #MeToo discussions of consent. When we juxtapose consent in these two contexts, two issues emerge. The first is whether consent is a valuable ethical tool in helping us to determine whether an agreement is ‘good’. This article argues that just as patriarchy makes a mockery of consent in negotiating sexual encounters, so too do free market economics make a mockery of consent and freedom to contract. The second issue is whether consent should be understood objectively or subjectively. While favouring the centralizing of a subjective approach as #MeToo did, this article also affirms the critical critique of objectivity and questions the objectivity/subjectivity dichotomy altogether. This article ends with a nod towards the theorization of contract as feminist and as relational.

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