Ian Roderick Macneil (Barra, — Barra, ) foi um jurista estado-unidense de origem escocesa.
Biografia Filho de Robert Lister Macneil, de família nobre escocesa, Ian Macneil fez seu bacharelado em artes na Universidade de Vermont em Sociologia (1950) e seu bacharelado em Direito (Bachelor of Laws) na Universidade de Harvard (concluído em 1955), onde teve a oportunidade de estudar direito contratual com o jurista Lon Fuller. Em 1959, torna-se professor da Universidade Cornell. Em 1972, passa a ser professor da Universidade de Virgínia e, em 1980, finalmente, obtém o cargo na Universidade Northwestern, onde torna-se professor emérito e permanece até sua aposentadoria.
Legado Macneil é conhecido mundialmente por sua teoria do contrato relacional.
Algumas obras
Macneil escreveu inúmeros artigos, textos e obras, eminentemente sobre o direito contratual. Algumas dessas obras são:
'When Acceptance Becomes Effective' in R.B. Schlesinger (Ed) Formation of Contracts: A Study of the Common Core of Legal Systems (Oceana Pubs: Dobbs Ferry, 1968) 'Whither Contracts?' (1969) 21 Journal of Legal Education 403 'Restatement (Second) of Contracts and Presentiation' (1974) 60 Virginia Law Review 589 'The Many Futures of Contracts' (1974) 47 Southern California Law Review 691 'A Primer of Contract Planning' (1975) 48 Southern California Law Review 627 'Contracts: Adjustment of Long-Term Economic Relations Under Classical, Neoclassical, and Relational Contract Law' (1978) 72 Northwestern University Law Review 854 Contracts: Exchange Transactions and Relations, 2d edn (Foundation Press: Mineola, 1978) (1a ed., 1971) The New Social Contract (Yale UP: New Haven, Conn, 1980) 'Economic Analysis of Contractual Relations: Its Shortfalls and the Need for a "Rich Classifactory Apparatus"' (1981) 75 Northwestern University Law Review 1018 'Efficient Breach: Circles in the Sky' (1982) 68 Virginia Law Review 947 'Values in Contract: Internal and External' (1983) 78 Northwestern University Law Review 340 'Reflections on Relational Contract' (1985) 141 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 541 'Exchange Revisited: Individual Utility and Social Solidarity' (1986) 96 Ethics 567 'Relational Contract Theory as Sociology: A reply to Professors Lindenberg and de Vos' (1987) 143 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 272 'Contract Remedies: A Need for a Better Efficiency Analysis' (1988) 144 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 6 American Arbitration Law: Reformulation – Nationalisation – Internationalisation (OUP: Oxford, 1992) (com R.E. Speidel e T.J. Stipanowich) Federal Arbitration Law: Agreements, Awards and Remedies Under the Federal Arbitration Act (5 vols) (Little, Brown: Boston, 1994) 'Contracting Worlds and Essential Contract Theory' (2000) 9 Social and Legal Studies 431 'Relational Contract Theory: Challenges and Queries' (2000) 94 Northwestern University Law Review 877 'Reflections on Relational Contract Theory after a Neo-classical Seminar' in H. Collins, D. Campbell and J. Wightman (Eds), The Implicit Dimensions of Contract (Hart: Oxford, 2003)
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