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Articles 1 - 26 of 26
Full-Text Articles in Law
Unconscionable Lawyers, Paul D. Carrington
Unconscionable Lawyers, Paul D. Carrington
Georgia State University 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.
An Analysis Of The Duty To Negotiate In Good Faith: Precontractual Liability And Preliminary Agreement, Aarti Arunachalam
An Analysis Of The Duty To Negotiate In Good Faith: Precontractual Liability And Preliminary Agreement, Aarti Arunachalam
LLM Theses and Essays
Good faith is one concept that defies a clear definition and courts have struggled to understand and establish its scope and ambit. This paper just seeks to analyze the scope of the duty of good faith as understood at the stage when actually no contract has been formed. Despite considerable support for the existence of a duty of good faith, courts in US have not been very receptive in recognizing the duty of good faith especially in the precontractual stage, especially when parties enter into preliminary agreement. Courts have relied on the a number of factors to determine the enforceability …
Nit-Picking Or Significant Contract Choices?-Part Iii, K.K. Duvivier
Nit-Picking Or Significant Contract Choices?-Part Iii, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In the March "Scrivener," I quoted three examples of revisions proposed in a lease negotiation that were characterized by one reader as "nit-picking." In the June article, I summarized the general responses I received about nit-picking from a number of readers. Two of those readers were kind enough to give me very specific feedback about the three clauses listed in the March article. This article addresses each clause individually to provide help to other readers with their negotiations. Overall, these readers concluded that each of the proposed revisions listed raised legitimate concerns for their clients that were worth discussing with …
Nit-Picking Or Significant Contract Choices?-Part Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Nit-Picking Or Significant Contract Choices?-Part Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The March 2002 Scrivener asked readers for feedback about how to distinguish nit-picking from requests for significant word changes in an agreement. The majority of respondents believed that the examples provided in the March article raised legitimate concerns. The July 2002 Scrivener will address those specific revisions quoted in the March article. This June article focuses on readers' general comments about crafting agreements to avoid nit-picking.
An Efficiency Analysis Of Contracts For The Provision Of Telephone Services To Prisons, Justin Carver
An Efficiency Analysis Of Contracts For The Provision Of Telephone Services To Prisons, Justin Carver
Federal Communications Law Journal
As the numbers of prisons and prisoners continue to increase, so does the market for prison services. One of the more lucrative segments of this industry is the telephone market. To the extent that the services are provided to the prisoners, the relationship resembles a third party beneficiary contract, but due to the perverse financial incentives and the political climate surrounding prisons and prisoners, neither the state nor the private entity acts in the best interests of the consumers in particular or of society in general. This Article will analyze the efficiency of these contracts, introduce alternate arrangements, and compare …
An Ivy League Mystery: The Lost Papers Of Arthur Linton Corbin, Scott D. Gerber
An Ivy League Mystery: The Lost Papers Of Arthur Linton Corbin, Scott D. Gerber
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Liability Of Design Professionals For Purely Economic Loss In South Carolina, Jody Bedenbaugh
Liability Of Design Professionals For Purely Economic Loss In South Carolina, Jody Bedenbaugh
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Leveling The Playing Field: Applying The Doctrines Of Unconscionability And Condition Precedent To Effectuate Student-Athlete Intent Under The National Letter Of Intent, Michael J. Riella
Leveling The Playing Field: Applying The Doctrines Of Unconscionability And Condition Precedent To Effectuate Student-Athlete Intent Under The National Letter Of Intent, Michael J. Riella
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Nit-Picking Or Significant Contract Choices?-Part I, K.K. Duvivier
Nit-Picking Or Significant Contract Choices?-Part I, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Because I practiced primarily as a transactional lawyer for the eight years before I started teaching, I can sympathize with both sides of this dilemma. In practice, I ran across two alternative approaches to elases or contracts: the short "gentlemen's agreement" and the comprehensive agreement.
Rules For Interpreting Incomplete Contracts: A Cautionary Note, Steven L. Harris
Rules For Interpreting Incomplete Contracts: A Cautionary Note, Steven L. Harris
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Rational Expectations Of Leniency: Implicit Plea Agreements And The Prosecutor’S Role As A Minister Of Justice, Eli Paul Mazur
Rational Expectations Of Leniency: Implicit Plea Agreements And The Prosecutor’S Role As A Minister Of Justice, Eli Paul Mazur
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
International Jurisdiction And Enforcement Of Judgments In The Era Of Global Networks: Irrelevance Of, Goals For, And Comments On The Current Proposals, Jonathan A. Franklin, Roberta J. Morris
International Jurisdiction And Enforcement Of Judgments In The Era Of Global Networks: Irrelevance Of, Goals For, And Comments On The Current Proposals, Jonathan A. Franklin, Roberta J. Morris
Librarians' Articles
Last fall a Symposium at Chicago-Kent College of Law entitled "Constructing International Intellectual Property Law: The Role of National Courts," held on October 18-19, 2001, brought together scholars interested in a group of problems related to the relationship between harmonized rules of international civil procedure and diverse nationally-based rules of intellectual property. Subsequently, extensive discussions between the authors developed this Article into its present form.
Legal Protection For Software: Still A Work In Progress, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz
Legal Protection For Software: Still A Work In Progress, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz
Articles
Software began as geekware-something written by programmers for programmers. Now, software is a business and consumer staple. Cryptic character-based user interfaces have given way to friendly graphical ones; multi-media is everywhere; people own multiple computers of varying sizes; computers are connected to one another across the globe; email and instant electronic messages have replaced letters and telephone calls for many people.
The issue of whether the law should protect software seems quaint to us now. Over the past twenty-five years, legislatures and courts have concluded that copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and contract law all can be used to protect …
The Rise And Fall Of Promissory Estoppel Or Is Promissory Estoppel Really As Unsuccessful As Scholars Say It Is: A New Look At The Data, Juliet P. Kostritsky
The Rise And Fall Of Promissory Estoppel Or Is Promissory Estoppel Really As Unsuccessful As Scholars Say It Is: A New Look At The Data, Juliet P. Kostritsky
Faculty Publications
This article makes important contributions to the field of empirical promissory estoppel scholarship. First it challenges recent empirical scholarship (by Professors Robert Hillman and Sidney De Long in the 1998 and 1997 Columbia and Wisconsin law reviews). Their scholarship had challenged the view of the vast majority of American Contracts scholarship by proclaiming promissory estoppel to be an unimportant doctrine based on low win rates of tried cases. My article challenges this new orthodoxy based on a comprehensive five year survey of cases. It concludes that it is too soon to announce the death of promissory estoppel and that promissory …
Sovereign Bonds And The Collective Will, Lee C. Buchheit, G. Mitu Gulati
Sovereign Bonds And The Collective Will, Lee C. Buchheit, G. Mitu Gulati
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Copyright Limitations And Contracts. An Analysis Of The Contractual Overridability Of Limitations On Copyright, Lucie Guibault
Copyright Limitations And Contracts. An Analysis Of The Contractual Overridability Of Limitations On Copyright, Lucie Guibault
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Traditional copyright law strikes a delicate balance between an author's control of original material and society's interest in the free flow of ideas, information, and commerce. In today's digitally networked environment, this balance has shifted dramatically to one side, as powerful rights holders contractually impose terms and conditions of use far beyond the bounds set by copyright law. This vitally significant book explores this conflict from its gestation through its current manifestations to its future lineaments and potential consequences. Focusing on statutory copyright limitations that enshrine constitutional rights such as freedom of expression and privacy, foster dissemination of knowledge, safeguard …
Symposium In Memory Of David H. Vernon: An Introduction, Mark D. Janis, Hillary A. Sale
Symposium In Memory Of David H. Vernon: An Introduction, Mark D. Janis, Hillary A. Sale
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The New Contract: Welfare Reform, Devolution, And Due Process, Christine N. Cimini
The New Contract: Welfare Reform, Devolution, And Due Process, Christine N. Cimini
Articles
This Article analyzes the due process implications of the change in welfare administration from a federal statutory entitlement model to the devolved contractual model and posits that, despite the changes, due process protections still exist. These protections arise from the private law of contracts on two different levels. The first level is the macro, or implied, contract, that I refer to as the social contract between the government and the populace. The existence of this social contract is evidenced in numerous sources including: political theories that explore the use of governmental authority; foundational democratic legal sources, such as the Declaration …
Ending A Mud Bowl: Defining Arbitration’S Finality Through Functional Analysis, Amy J. Schmitz
Ending A Mud Bowl: Defining Arbitration’S Finality Through Functional Analysis, Amy J. Schmitz
Faculty Publications
The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and Uniform Arbitration Act (UAA), on the state level, prescribe a nearly identical procedural and remedial scheme for promoting independent, self-contained arbitration. To that end, both acts curtail courts' review of arbitration awards, by limiting the grounds for vacating awards to those aimed at ensuring only basic procedural fairness. Nonetheless, seemingly "pro-arbitration" impulses have driven some courts' eager application, or misapplication, of the FAA/UAA statutory scheme to enforce dispute resolution agreements that reject the acts' limited review prescriptions. This Article tackles this arguable abuse of the FAA/UAA scheme, by proposing a functional analysis for defining …
Unconscionable Lawyers, Paul D. Carrington
Relational Contract And Other Models Of Marriage, Robert Leckey
Relational Contract And Other Models Of Marriage, Robert Leckey
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article proposes relational contract as a model for analyzing marriage under Canadian law. In contrast, in Bracklow v. Bracklow, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized two "competing" models of marriage and three models of spousal support. The difficult policy issues in the law of spousal support relate not to a tension between different models but instead go to compensation, including reliance and expectations. This article uses relational contract to critique Bracklow, considering the challenges in defining models. The Court's basic social obligation model and its non-compensatory support are unjustifiably broad, and its compensatory support is too narrow. In assessing …
The Real Properties Of Contract Law, Michael Madison
The Real Properties Of Contract Law, Michael Madison
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Consenting To Form Contracts, Randy E. Barnett
Consenting To Form Contracts, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this essay, I will identify one theoretical source of the common antipathy towards form contracts and why it is misguided. I contend that the hostility towards form contracts stems in important part from an implicit adoption of a promise-based conception of contractual obligation. I shall maintain that, when one adopts (a) a consent theory of contract based not on promise but on the manifested intention to be legally bound and (b) a properly objective interpretation of this consent, form contracts can be seen as entirely legitimate-though some form terms may properly be subject to judicial scrutiny that would be …
Two Cheers For Freedom Of Contract, Mark L. Movsesian
Two Cheers For Freedom Of Contract, Mark L. Movsesian
Faculty Publications
Once, they say, freedom of contract reigned in American law. Parties could make agreements on a wide variety of subjects and choose the terms they wished. Courts would refrain from questioning the substance of bargains and would ensure only that parties had observed the proper formalities. In interpretation, objectivity was paramount. Courts would seek to ascertain, not what the parties had intended, but what a reasonable observer would understand the parties' words to mean. Contract law was a series of abstractions informed by individual autonomy and judicial deference.
This world, a classical paradise of doctrines with sharp corners, began to …
Contract, Property, And The Role Of Metaphor In Corporations Law, Thomas W. Joo
Contract, Property, And The Role Of Metaphor In Corporations Law, Thomas W. Joo
Thomas W Joo
Cognitive scientists have described the role of metaphor as the attempt to understand one domain of knowledge (the "target") in terms of another (the "source"). Corporations law scholarship is currently dominated by a metaphor which attempts to explain corporations in terms of contracts. This "contractarian" metaphor derives from the economic model of the "firm" as a set of "contracts." The legal version of the metaphor exhibits confusion about both its target and its source. The economic concept of the "firm" is not equivalent to the legal concept of the "corporation." Nor is the economic "contract," a voluntary reciprocal relationship, equivalent …