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69 S. C. L. Rev. 479 (2017-2018)
Contract, Power, and the Value of Donative Promises

handle is hein.journals/sclr69 and id is 499 raw text is: CONTRACT, POWER, AND THE VALUE OF DONATIVE PROMISES Sabine Tsuruda* I. INTRODUCTION..................................................480 II. THE DONATIVE PROMISE PRINCIPLE ..............................484 A. Consideration. ................................ ..... 485 1. Reciprocity and Exchange. .................. ....... 487 2. Naming Rights and Obligations to Use Donations for a Charitable Purpose. ......................... .....488 B. Promissory Estoppel ......................... ....... 490 1. Inducing Reliance .................................. 491 2. Caretaking and Indigence ................... ...... 496 3. Enforcement Without Actual Reliance? Restatement 90(2) ........................................ 499 III. THE INEGALITARIAN CHARACTER OF THE DONATIVE PROMISE PRINCIPLE . ........................................ ..............501 A. Perverse Legal Reasons to Succumb to Improper Influence......... 501 B. Reifying Social Inequality ............................503 IV. REMEDYING THE INEGALITARIAN DEFECTS OF THE DONATIVE PROMISE PRINCIPLE ........................................ .....506 A. Enforcing Donative Promises in the Absence ofReliance............ 507 B. Alternatives ................................ ....... 509 1. Probable Reliance. ......................... ...... 509 2. Need-Based Enforcement. .................. ........510 3. Default Enforcement ............................. 512 C. Implementation and Scope. ............................ 513 V. SUPPORTING THE MORAL VALUES OF DONATIVE PROMISES...............515 * Predoctoral Fellow in Law and Philosophy, UCLA School of Law. Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Department of Philosophy. J.D., 2016, UCLA School of Law. I am grateful for help and comments on this topic from Jeremy Anderson, Aditi Bagchi, Lindsey Chambers, Hugh Collins, Nicolas Cornell, Hanoch Dagan, Jorah Dannenberg, James Edwards, Max Etchemendy, Barbara Herman, Martijn Hesselink, Katherine Kim, Lyn Tjon Soei Len, Gillian Lester, David Plunkett, Richard Re, Seana Shiffrin, Noah Zatz, the participants in the 2017 CSECL International Summer School on Contract Law and the Moral Limits of Markets, the 2016 Stanford Legal Philosophy Workshop, and the members of the UCLA Ethics Writing Seminar. 479

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