A Complete Guide to the Law of Promissory Fraud

How can a promise be a lie?
Answer: when the promisor never intended to perform the promise.

 

This book provides the first comprehensive discussion of both civil and criminal promissory fraud liability. In addition to developing a theoretical account of the doctrine, the book provides litigators with practical advice on how to bring and defend promissory fraud claims, and how to avoid them in the first place.

 

Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent

 

Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent (Yale University Press 2005) (with Gregory Klass).

Winner of the 2006 Scribes Book Award "for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year."

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Promissory Fraud Without Breach, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 507 (2004) (with Gregory Klass).

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