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Beyond Discrimination: Market Humiliation And Private Law, Hila Keren
Beyond Discrimination: Market Humiliation And Private Law, Hila Keren
University of Colorado Law Review
Market humiliation is a corrosive relational process to which the law repeatedly fails to respond due to the law’s heavy reliance on the discrimination paradigm. In this process, providers of market resources, from housing and work to goods and services, use their powers to reject or mistreat other market users due to their identities. They thus cause users severe harm and deprive them of dignified participation in the marketplace. The problem has recently reached a peak. The discussion in 303 Creative v. Elenis indicates that the Supreme Court might legitimize market humiliation by granting private providers broad free speech exemptions …
Adapting Private Law For Climate Change Adaptation, Jim Rossi, J. B. Ruhl
Adapting Private Law For Climate Change Adaptation, Jim Rossi, J. B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law Review
The private law of torts, property, and contracts will and should play an important role in resolving disputes regarding how private individuals and entities respond to and manage the harms of climate change that cannot be avoided through mitigation (known in climate change policy dialogue as “adaptation”). While adaptation is commonly presented as a problem needing legislative solutions, this Article presents a novel and overdue case for private law to take climate adaptation seriously.
To date, the role of private law is a significant blind spot in scholarly discussions of climate adaptation. Litigation invoking common-law doctrines in climate adaption disputes …
Misreading Menetti: The Case Does Not Help You Avoid Liability For Your Own Fraud, Val D. Ricks
Misreading Menetti: The Case Does Not Help You Avoid Liability For Your Own Fraud, Val D. Ricks
St. Mary's Law Journal
Several decades ago, an incorrect legal idea surfaced in Texas jurisprudence: that business entity actors are immune from liability for fraud that they themselves commit, as if the entity is solely responsible. Though the Supreme Court of Texas has rejected that result several times, it keeps coming back. The most recent manifestation is as a construction of Texas’s unique veil-piercing statute. Many lawyers have suggested that this view of the veil-piercing statute originated in Menetti v. Chavers, a San Antonio Court of Appeals case decided in 1998. Menetti has in fact played a prominent role in the movement to …
The Internet Of Bodies, Andrea M. Matwyshyn
The Internet Of Bodies, Andrea M. Matwyshyn
William & Mary Law Review
This Article introduces the ongoing progression of the Internet of Things (IoT) into the Internet of Bodies (IoB)—a network of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at least in part on the Internet and related technologies, such as artificial intelligence. IoB devices will evidence the same categories of legacy security flaws that have plagued IoT devices. However, unlike most IoT, IoB technologies will directly, physically harm human bodies—a set of harms courts, legislators, and regulators will deem worthy of legal redress. As such, IoB will herald the arrival of (some forms of) corporate software liability and a new legal …
Money That Costs Too Much: Regulating Financial Incentives, Kristen Underhill
Money That Costs Too Much: Regulating Financial Incentives, Kristen Underhill
Indiana Law Journal
Money may not corrupt. But should we worry if it corrodes? Legal scholars in a range of fields have expressed concern about “motivational crowding-out,” a process by which offering financial rewards for good behavior may undermine laudable social motivations, like professionalism or civic duty. Disquiet about the motivational impacts of incentives has now extended to health law, employment law, tax, torts, contracts, criminal law, property, and beyond. In some cases, the fear of crowding-out has inspired concrete opposition to innovative policies that marshal incentives to change individual behavior. But to date, our fears about crowding-out have been unfocused and amorphous; …
A (Thigh) Gap In The Law: Addressing Egregious Digital Manipulation Of Celebrity Images, Jessica L. Williams-Vickery
A (Thigh) Gap In The Law: Addressing Egregious Digital Manipulation Of Celebrity Images, Jessica L. Williams-Vickery
Georgia State University Law Review
In 2012, world-renowned supermodel Coco Rocha agreed to be photographed for the cover of one of Elle’s magazine publications, Elle Brazil. Rocha posed for the pictures in a dress with significant cutouts, covered only by a sheer layer of skin-toned fabric. In keeping with her firm policy of no full or partial nudity, Rocha wore a bodysuit underneath the dress to limit her exposure. When Elle published the magazine, the final product shocked Rocha; the magazine had altered the image to remove her bodysuit, giving the impression Rocha had shown more skin than she in fact had. Rocha took to …
Reason And Reasonableness: The Necessary Diversity Of The Common Law, Frederic G. Sourgens
Reason And Reasonableness: The Necessary Diversity Of The Common Law, Frederic G. Sourgens
Maine Law Review
This Article addresses the central concept of “reasonableness” in the common law and constitutional jurisprudence. On the basis of three examples, the common law of torts, the common law of contracts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, the Article notes that different areas of the law follow fundamentally inconsistent utilitarian, pragmatic, and formalist reasonableness paradigms. The significance of this diversity of reasonableness paradigms remains largely under-theorized. This Article submits that the diversity of reasonableness paradigms is a necessary feature of the common law. It theorizes that the utilitarian, pragmatic and formalistic paradigms are structural elements driving the common law norm-generation process. This …
Preface To The Gateway Thread, Deborah Post
Where's The Sense In Hill V. Gateway 2000?: Reflections On The Visible Hand Of Norm Creation, Shubha Ghosh
Where's The Sense In Hill V. Gateway 2000?: Reflections On The Visible Hand Of Norm Creation, Shubha Ghosh
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Common Sense, Contracts, And Law And Literature: Why Lawyers Should Read Henry James, Lenora Ledwon
Common Sense, Contracts, And Law And Literature: Why Lawyers Should Read Henry James, Lenora Ledwon
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Disentangling Choice Of Law For Torts And Contracts, Rick Kirgis
Disentangling Choice Of Law For Torts And Contracts, Rick Kirgis
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
In a federal system with state lines that are easily crossed, physically and electronically, legal disputes often raise choice-of-law issues. Common among those disputes are torts and contracts cases. The courts have taken a variety of approaches to these cases, leading to inconsistent results that depend largely on which forum the plaintiff selects. Judicial fairness and economy dictate, or should dictate, that the choice-of-law issues be resolvable consistently and without unnecessarily tying up the courts or imposing large litigation costs, if it can be done in a principled manner. This article shows how it could be done.
Not Just For Products Liability: Applying The Economic Loss Rule Beyond Its Origins, Danielle Sawaya
Not Just For Products Liability: Applying The Economic Loss Rule Beyond Its Origins, Danielle Sawaya
Fordham Law Review
Most litigants, if given the chance, prefer to assert tort theories to recover their economic losses, rather than rely on the remedies provided under contract law. This is primarily because plaintiffs have the potential to recover more damages under tort law than contract law. However, most courts have adopted a doctrine known as the economic loss rule to bar plaintiffs from asserting certain tort theories to recover for their economic loss. Although the economic loss rule may seem like an easy way to maintain the boundary between tort law and contract law, confusion abounds when courts attempt to determine the …
Civil Recourse Theory's Reductionism, Guido Calabresi
Civil Recourse Theory's Reductionism, Guido Calabresi
Indiana Law Journal
American Association of Law Schools Torts & Compensation Systems Panel
Foreword: Fault In American Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar, Ariel Porat
Foreword: Fault In American Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar, Ariel Porat
Michigan Law Review
The basic rule of liability in tort law is fault. The basic rule of liability in contract law is no fault. This is perhaps one of the most striking divides within private law, the most important difference between the law of voluntary and nonvoluntary obligations. It is this fault line (speaking equivocally) that the present Symposium explores. Is it a real divide-two opposite branches of liability within private law-or is it merely a rhetorical myth? How can it be justified? As law-and-economics scholars, this fault/no-fault divide between contract and tort is all the more puzzling. In law and economics, legal …
Accrual Of Causes Of Action In Virginia, James W. Ellerman
Accrual Of Causes Of Action In Virginia, James W. Ellerman
University of Richmond Law Review
This article will examine major issues in Virginia law affecting the accrual of causes of action, specifically in the contexts of contract, tort, and property. In addition to surveying the basic accrual requirements for each area of law, this article will look more deeply into several specific issues that guide an accrual analysis particularly the distinction between causes and rights of action, as well as the continuous treatment, discovery, and economic loss rules.
Contract Law—The Collision Of Tort And Contract Law: Validity And Enforceability Of Exculpatory Clauses In Arkansas. Jordan V. Diamond Equipment, 2005 Wl 984513 (2005)., John G. Shram
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Right Without A Potent Remedy: Indiana's Bad Faith Insurance Doctrine Leaves Injured Third Parties Without Full Redress, Gregory A. Bullman
A Right Without A Potent Remedy: Indiana's Bad Faith Insurance Doctrine Leaves Injured Third Parties Without Full Redress, Gregory A. Bullman
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Remedies For Imperfect Transactions In Contracts And Torts, David W. Barnes
Remedies For Imperfect Transactions In Contracts And Torts, David W. Barnes
San Diego Law Review
The papers by Professors DeLong, Wonnell, and Kelly in this Symposium address different types of imperfect transactions. Promises that are the subject of section 90 of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts are imperfect in the sense that they lack consideration or are disclaimed in subsequent, formalized, written contracts.' Section 90 authorizes courts to find remedies for reasonable but fruitless expenditures induced by parties who make promises on which they should reasonably expect others to rely.2 Professor DeLong decries courts' formalist strategies for enforcing disclaimers that eliminate these promisors' potential liability for intentionally imperfect transactions.' Taking Professor DeLong's analysis of imperfect …
Tort In A Contractual Matrix, John G. Fleming
Tort In A Contractual Matrix, John G. Fleming
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article addresses one aspect of the interface between tort and contract: the way tort law is affected, whether by extending or contracting its reach, by the parties coming together against a contractual structure. Two basic situations are considered. The first concerns the effect of a contractual limitation clause on the tort liability of, or to, a third party such as a subcontractor's to the building owner. The second considers what effect to attribute to a plaintiff's failure to protect himself or herself in advance by contracting against the risk
Torts: Boyle V. United Technologies Corp.: The United States Supreme Court Accepts The Government Contractor Defense, Brian Shipp
Torts: Boyle V. United Technologies Corp.: The United States Supreme Court Accepts The Government Contractor Defense, Brian Shipp
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Distributive And Paternalist Motives In Contract And Tort Law, With Special Reference To Compulsory Terms And Unequal Bargaining Power, Duncan Kennedy
Distributive And Paternalist Motives In Contract And Tort Law, With Special Reference To Compulsory Terms And Unequal Bargaining Power, Duncan Kennedy
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Express Contracts To Cure: The Nature Of Contractual Malpractice, Gary L. Birnbaum
Express Contracts To Cure: The Nature Of Contractual Malpractice, Gary L. Birnbaum
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Product Liability Law Has Come Of Age, Buell Doelle
Product Liability Law Has Come Of Age, Buell Doelle
Cleveland State Law Review
This article draws out the products liability debate and the push for settlements over litigation in court. The article discusses products liability law, and its origin in politics and unions. It also describes the attorney’s role in products liability cases, and suggests how that role should change in the future. The article concludes by looking at no-fault reparation and the adversarial system.
Contracts -- 1963 Tennessee Survey, Paul J. Hartman
Contracts -- 1963 Tennessee Survey, Paul J. Hartman
Vanderbilt Law Review
Both the one year provision and the sale of goods provision of the Statute of Frauds were construed in Anderson-Gregory Co. v. Lea.'Regarding the duration of the contract, the facts in the opinion are somewhat sparse... The court held that the contract did not come within this provision of the statute. If a contract could have been performed, under its terms, within a year from the time of its making, it is not within the Statute of Frauds, even though it is improbable that the contract would be performed within a year.
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Torts--Malpractice--Wrongful Death Action Based On Breach Of Contract, Ralph Charles Dusic Jr.
Torts--Malpractice--Wrongful Death Action Based On Breach Of Contract, Ralph Charles Dusic Jr.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Agency -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Elvin E. Overton
Agency -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Elvin E. Overton
Vanderbilt Law Review
The topic "agency" includes the areas of "master and servant" as well as those of "principal and agent." There were few cases in these areas decided by the Tennessee courts during the period under survey. Generally, basic principles were applied to routine cases.In certain instances the reliance upon a prior fact determination avoided the necessity of an elaborate treatment of the facts. In one or two cases the court reached a result that may not be deemed desirable though supported by much authority. Significant points received less attention than they deserved in certain cases. In one case the basic question …
Book Reviews, Robert B. Looper, Ralph Slovenko
Book Reviews, Robert B. Looper, Ralph Slovenko
Vanderbilt Law Review
Cases and Materials on Restitution By John W. Wade Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1958. Pp. xxxi, 903. $11.00.
reviewer: Robert B. Looper
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Equal Justice for the Accused By a Special Committee of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and The National Legal Aid Association New York: Doubleday & Co., 1959. Pp. 144. $3.50.
reviewer: Ralph Slovenko
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Contracts--Ceiling Price Legislation--Effect upon Performance
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Evidence--Declarations against Interest--Third-Party Confessions
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Family Law--Loss of Consortium of the Parent--Right of Child to Recover Against a Negligent Defendant
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Federal Procedure--Statutory Construction--Meaning of "Mentally Incompetent"
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Income Taxation--Surrender of Lease--Capital Gain to Lessee
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Income Taxation--Taxable Stock Dividend--Treasury Stock Held for Investment
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Judgment--Suit to Vacate--Insufficient Allegations of Cruelty Void Divorce Decree
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Labor Law--Filing Requirements--Noncompliance at Time Charges Filed
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Municipal Corporations--Liability for Negligence--Operation of Swimming Pool for Profit
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Process--Constructive Service--Tort Action Arising Without State
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Torts--Res Ipsa Loquitur--Application To Disappearing Airplane
Damages-Extent To Which Earnings Of Employee After Wrongful Discharge Apply In Mitigation Of Damages For Breach Of Contract
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Damages--Duty To Mitigate, A. F. G.