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Contracting For Fourth Amendment Privacy Online, Wayne A. Logan, Jake Linford
Contracting For Fourth Amendment Privacy Online, Wayne A. Logan, Jake Linford
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Algorithmic Contracts, Lauren Henry Scholz
Algorithmic Contracts, Lauren Henry Scholz
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Algorithmic contracts are contracts in which an algorithm determines a party’s obligations. Some contracts are algorithmic because the parties used algorithms as negotiators before contract formation, choosing which terms to offer or accept. Other contracts are algorithmic because the parties agree that an algorithm to be run at some time after the contract formation will serve as a gap-filler. Such agreements are already common in high speed trading of financial products and will soon spread to other contexts. However, contract law doctrine does not currently have a coherent approach to describing the creation and enforcement of algorithmic contracts. This Article …
Contract Meta-Interpretation, Shawn J. Bayern
Contract Meta-Interpretation, Shawn J. Bayern
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This Article provides a general framework for resolving the contract law’s ambivalence between textualism and contextualism, one of the most difficult questions in modern contract interpretation. Simply put, the Article’s argument is that courts need to determine the parties’ preferences as to how their contracts should be interpreted; this “meta-interpretive” inquiry can then direct the court’s interpretation or construction of the parties’ substantive rights and duties. Moreover, the Article argues that while contextualist interpretation is not, and should not be, mandatory for all interpretive questions under contract law, contextualism is necessary to resolve the initial “meta-interpretive” question: What interpretive regime …
A Tax Audible: Coaches And Buyouts, Jeffrey H. Kahn
A Tax Audible: Coaches And Buyouts, Jeffrey H. Kahn
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Offer And Acceptance In Modern Contract Law: A Needless Concept, Shawn J. Bayern
Offer And Acceptance In Modern Contract Law: A Needless Concept, Shawn J. Bayern
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The fundamental law of contract formation has retained the formalistic character of classical contract law. The offer-and-acceptance paradigm fits poorly with modern contracting practice, and it obscures and complicates contract doctrine. More importantly, extending it threatens to produce undesirable results. Instead of the offer-and-acceptance paradigm, this Essay proposes that contract formation be analyzed using the same general interpretive inquiry that governs other questions concerning the intent of contracting parties.
Analyzing the processes of contract formation in this manner points the way toward a further-reaching reconsideration of the purposes of contract-formation law in the first place. In particular, this Essay proposes …
The Fiduciary Gap, Kelli A. Alces
The Essential Role Of Courts For Supporting Innovation, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Christopher R. Drahozal
The Essential Role Of Courts For Supporting Innovation, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Christopher R. Drahozal
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Commercial parties commonly resolve their disputes in arbitration rather than courts. In fact, some estimate that as many as 90 percent of international commercial contracts opt for arbitration of future disputes, and others claim that some industries never resort to courts. However, a study of arbitration clauses in a wide variety of contracts, including franchise agreements, CEO employment contracts, technology contracts, joint venture agreements and consumer cell phone contracts, reveals that parties very often carve out a right to resort to courts for the resolution of claims designed to protect information, innovation, and reputation. Studies of international and cross-border contracts …
Larry Ribstein's Fiduciary Duties, Kelli A. Alces
Larry Ribstein's Fiduciary Duties, Kelli A. Alces
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Larry Ribstein, throughout his remarkable scholarly career, developed a theory formed around his analysis that the end of fiduciary obligation is a near possibility. Understanding fiduciary obligations as a carefully defined term may indicate, however, that this fiduciary obligation can be a useful part of a wider selection of relationships than Ribstein allowed. This Article both considers Ribstein’s theory of fiduciary duty, and ultimately turns that same theory on its head by advocating the use of a narrow duty in a variety of contexts as opposed to a broad duty in a limited range of circumstances
Foreign Investments And The Market For Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Susan D. Franck
Foreign Investments And The Market For Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Susan D. Franck
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In this Article, Professors O’Hara O’Connor and Franck adapt and extend Larry Ribstein’s positive framework for analyzing the role of jurisdictional competition in the law market. Specifically, the authors provide an institutional framework focused on interest group representation that can be used to balance the tensions underlying foreign investment law, including the desire to compete to attract investments and countervailing preferences to retain domestic policymaking discretion. The framework has implications for the respective roles of BITs and investment contracts as well as the inclusion and interpretation of various foreign investment provisions.
Unilateral Reordering In The Reel World, Jake Linford
Unilateral Reordering In The Reel World, Jake Linford
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Transitive Counterparty Risk And Financial Contracts, Manuel A. Utset
Transitive Counterparty Risk And Financial Contracts, Manuel A. Utset
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Preemption And Choice-Of-Law Coordination, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Larry E. Ribstein
Preemption And Choice-Of-Law Coordination, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Larry E. Ribstein
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The doctrine treating federal preemption of state law has been plagued by uncertainty and confusion. Part of the problem is that courts purport to interpret congressional intent when often Congress has never considered the particular preemption question at issue. This Article suggests that courts deciding preemption cases should take seriously a commonly articulated rationale for the federalization of law: the need to coordinate applicable legal standards in order to facilitate a national market or to otherwise provide clear guidance to parties regarding the laws that apply to their conduct. In situations where federal law can serve a coordinating function but …
The Expectation Measure And Its Discontents, Shawn J. Bayern, Melvin A, Eisenberg
The Expectation Measure And Its Discontents, Shawn J. Bayern, Melvin A, Eisenberg
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Customizing Employment Arbitration, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Kenneth J. Martin, Randall S. Thomas
Customizing Employment Arbitration, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Kenneth J. Martin, Randall S. Thomas
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According to the dispute resolution literature, one advantage of arbitration over litigation is that arbitration enables the parties to customize their dispute-resolution procedures. For example, parties can choose the qualifications of the arbitrator(s), the governing procedural rules, the limitation period, recoverable damages, rules for discovery and the presentation of evidence and witnesses, and the specificity of required arbitrator findings. While some scholars have questioned whether parties to arbitration agreements frequently take advantage of this customization, there is little solid empirical information about the topic.
In this Article, we study the arbitration clauses found in a random sample of 910 Chief …
High-Powered (Mis)Incentives And Venture-Capital Contractors, Manuel A. Utset
High-Powered (Mis)Incentives And Venture-Capital Contractors, Manuel A. Utset
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Arbitration Clauses In Ceo Employment Contracts: An Empirical And Theoretical Analysis, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Kenneth Martin, Randall Thomas
Arbitration Clauses In Ceo Employment Contracts: An Empirical And Theoretical Analysis, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Kenneth Martin, Randall Thomas
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A bill currently pending in Congress would render unenforceable mandatory arbitration clauses in all employment contracts. Some perceive these provisions as employer efforts to deprive employees of important legal rights. Company CEOs are firm employees, and, unlike most other firm employees, they can actually negotiate their employment contracts, very often with attorney assistance. Moreover, many CEO employment contracts are publicly available, so they can be examined empirically. In this paper, we ask whether CEOs bargain to include binding arbitration provisions in their employment contracts. After exploring the theoretical arguments for and against including such provisions in these agreements, we use …
Rational Ignorance, Rational Closed-Mindedness, And Modern Economic Formalism In Contract Law, Shawn J. Bayern
Rational Ignorance, Rational Closed-Mindedness, And Modern Economic Formalism In Contract Law, Shawn J. Bayern
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This article considers the relevance of several kinds of post-offense events for the justice of punishment under a fair-play account of retributivism. If the justice of punishment depends on something like an offender-centered tally of benefits and burdens, it may be difficult to explain why offenders should be punished by a criminal justice system in situations where they have been punished privately or have lost the relevant benefits they may have received from their offenses.
My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
That cannot be; since I am …
Debunking The Corporate Fiduciary Myth, Kelli A. Alces
Debunking The Corporate Fiduciary Myth, Kelli A. Alces
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Corporations And The Market For Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Larry E. Ribstein
Corporations And The Market For Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Larry E. Ribstein
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The state competition for corporate law has long been studied as a distinct phenomenon. Under the traditional view, corporations are subject to a unique choice-of-law rule, the “internal affairs doctrine” (IAD). This rule is explained as a historical accident, or by the special logistics of the corporate contract. The resulting market for corporate law appears to have special characteristics, particularly including the dominance of the single state of Delaware. This article challenges the traditional view. It shows that the corporate law market is best understood as a special application of the general market for law. Parties to many types of …
Tax Consequences When A New Employer Bears The Cost Of The Employee's Terminating A Prior Relationship, Jeffrey H. Kahn, Douglas A. Kahn
Tax Consequences When A New Employer Bears The Cost Of The Employee's Terminating A Prior Relationship, Jeffrey H. Kahn, Douglas A. Kahn
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No abstract provided.
The Jurisprudence And Politics Of Forum-Selection Clauses, Erin O'Hara O'Connor
The Jurisprudence And Politics Of Forum-Selection Clauses, Erin O'Hara O'Connor
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Reciprocal Fairness, Strategic Behavior & Venture Survival: A Theory Of Venture Capital-Financed Firms, Manuel A. Utset
Reciprocal Fairness, Strategic Behavior & Venture Survival: A Theory Of Venture Capital-Financed Firms, Manuel A. Utset
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Second Generation Of Law And Economics Of Conflict Of Laws: Baxter's Comparative Impairment And Beyond, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, William H. Allen
Second Generation Of Law And Economics Of Conflict Of Laws: Baxter's Comparative Impairment And Beyond, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, William H. Allen
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In his 1963 article in the Stanford Law Review, “Choice of Law and the Federal System,” Professor William F. Baxter criticized the choice-of-law approach of the First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws. According to the Restatement, courts should apply the law of the state where the last act or event deemed necessary to create a cause of action occurred. In contrast, Baxter advocated a comparative-impairment approach, whereby judges were obligated to apply the law of the state whose public policy would suffer the greatest impairment if its law was not applied. The authors contend that although Baxter’s approach caries …