The article examines the limits of freedom of contract as a fundamental principle of civil law and addresses the role of the public contract as a legal mechanism designed to protect socially significant interests in the sphere of mass contractual relations. It analyses the relationship between private and public interests within contractual regulation and clarifies the legal nature of permissible restrictions on party autonomy aimed at ensuring equality, non-discrimination, and legal certainty in civil turnover. Particular attention is paid to the functional purpose of the public contract within the system of civil legislation as an instrument for sustaining confidence in the market and guaranteeing uniform conditions of access to goods and services for an indeterminate circle of persons.
Sergey Nikolaevich Khrameshin (2020) studied this question.