Response to Reasonable Expectations in Sociocultural Context

Abstract

The Article starts 6 (and ends)7 with the premise that contract law should enforce the reasonable expectations of the parties. This is a hard premise to challenge.8 And an even harder premise to apply.9 The Article recognizes the two problems with applying this premise: (1) how does a court decide what expectations are �reasonable,�10 and (2) what does a court do when the contracting parties have different reasonable expectations.11 The Article then uses two cases to illustrate how �sociocultural dissonance between a judge and contracting party�12 exacerbates these problems.