The Author:
Allan E. Farnsworth è Alfred McCormack Professor alla Columbia University School of Law.
E' stato Reporter del Restatement of Contracts, Second.
E' stato delegato degli Stati Uniti presso l'UNCITRAL ed ha partecipato come membro della delegazione americana alla Conferenza diplomatica di Vienna nel 1980 per l'approvazione della Convenzione sui contratti di vendita internazionale di merci.
E' membro del Consiglio di Direzione dell'UNIDROIT.
E' autore di numerosi scritti sul diritto nord-americano tra cui spiccano le due opere fondamentali An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States (New York, 2 ed., 1975) e Contracts (Boston-Toronto, 1990).

1. See generally R. Goode, The Concept of "Good Faith" in English Law (in this series, n. 2, Roma 1992).

2. See W. Twining, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement, 1985, p. 312.

3. Farnsworth, Good Faith Performance and Commercial Reasonableness Under the Uniform Commercial Code, 30 U. Chi. L. Rev. 666, 679 (1963).

4. Tymshare v. Covell, 727 F.2d 1145 (D.C. Cir. 1984).

5. Summers, "Good Faith" in General Contract Law and the Sales Provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, 54 Va. L. Rev. 195, 200, 232-33 (1968).

6. E.g., Best v. United States National Bank, 739 P.2d 554 (Or. 1987).

7. Restatement, Second, of Contracts § 205, Comment d.

8. Burton, Breach of Contract and the Common Law Duty to Perform in Good Faith, 94 Harv. L. Rev. 369, 369, 372-73 (1980). See also Burton, Good Faith Performance of a Contract Within Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, 67 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (1981).

9. E.g., Richard Short Oil Co. v. Texaco, 799 F.2d 415 (8th Cir. 1986).

10. Summers, The General Duty of Good Faith - Its Recognition and Conceptualization, 67 Cornell L. Rev. 810 (1982).

11. Burton, More on Good Faith Performance of a Contract: A Reply to Professor Summers, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 497, 499 (1984).

12. E.g., Foley v. Interactive Data Corp., 765 P.2d 373 (Cal. 1988)(citing both Summers and Burton).

13. See generally E. A. Farnsworth, Contracts § 8.4 (1990).

14. Doubleday & Co. v. Curtis, 763 F.2d 495 (2d Cir.), cert. dismissed, 474 U.S. 912 (1985).

15. Conoco v. Inman Oil Co., 774 F.2d 895, 908 (8th Cir. 1985).

16. Rio Algom Corp. v. Jimco Ltd., 618 P.2d 497, 505 (Utah 1980).

17. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Gulf Oil Corp., 415 F. Supp. 429 (S.D. Fla. 1975).

18. Renard Constructions v. Minister for Public Works, 26 N.S.W.L.R. 234 (1982).

19. 12 UNSW L.J. 4, 4, 6-7, 17-19 (1989).