Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 5 of 6: For love and for money: Encounters with au pair contracts
Angela Kintominas Classic contract law theory often assumes a foundational difference between ‘status’ and ‘contract’.[1] This echoes the wider ‘hostile worlds’[2] thesis that there is (or should be) a watertight commodity frontier separating what is done for money and what is done for love, and the related presumption against an intention to create binding contractual [...]