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The Bitter Ironies Of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In The First Year Law School Curriculum, Duncan Kennedy Apr 2023

The Bitter Ironies Of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In The First Year Law School Curriculum, Duncan Kennedy

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rules Vs. Standards In Private Ordering, Tomer S. Stein Dec 2022

Rules Vs. Standards In Private Ordering, Tomer S. Stein

Buffalo Law Review

The tradeoff between bright-line rules and general standards is one of the bedrocks of law design. This tradeoff determines how legal norms are composed. The tradeoff between rules and standards pervasively affects private ordering as well: it determines how contractual norms are composed. Yet, scholars exploring the rule vs. standard dichotomy have either entirely overlooked the tradeoff taking place in private orderings or equated it with the public tradeoff that dominates lawmaking.

This Article is the first to systematically examine the rule vs. standard tradeoff in private orderings. The Article carries out this task by identifying and analyzing the fundamental …


Not From Guile But From Entitlement: Lawful Opportunism Capitalizes On The Cracks In Contracts, Gastón De Los Reyes Jr., Kirsten Martin Jan 2019

Not From Guile But From Entitlement: Lawful Opportunism Capitalizes On The Cracks In Contracts, Gastón De Los Reyes Jr., Kirsten Martin

Buffalo Law Review

Few concepts have been more pivotal to contract law scholarship over the last forty years than the opportunism attributed ex ante and ex post to contracting parties, yet the lawful form of opportunism identified by Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson in 1991 remains surprisingly overlooked in favor of the blatant forms of opportunism that result from “self-interest seeking with guile.” This Article extends Williamson’s inchoate account of lawful opportunism and reports the first empirical study of the phenomenon.

The conceptual analysis of lawful opportunism is developed with reference to the bargaining underlying the classic impossibility decision, Taylor v. Caldwell. Three component …


The Validity Of Restraints On Alienation In An Oil And Gas Lease, Luke Meier, Rory Ryan Apr 2016

The Validity Of Restraints On Alienation In An Oil And Gas Lease, Luke Meier, Rory Ryan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Pluralism In Contract Law, Leon Trakman Dec 2010

Pluralism In Contract Law, Leon Trakman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Limitation Of Liability Clauses In Public Utility Tariffs: Is The Rationale For State-Sponsored Indemnity Still Valid?, John L. Rudy Sep 2004

Limitation Of Liability Clauses In Public Utility Tariffs: Is The Rationale For State-Sponsored Indemnity Still Valid?, John L. Rudy

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Intentional Interference With Contract And The Doctrine Of Efficient Breach: Fine Tuning The Notion Of The Contract Breacher As Wrongdoer, Clark A. Remington Jan 1999

Intentional Interference With Contract And The Doctrine Of Efficient Breach: Fine Tuning The Notion Of The Contract Breacher As Wrongdoer, Clark A. Remington

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Relational Contract Theory And The Concept Of Exchange, Paul J. Gudel Oct 1998

Relational Contract Theory And The Concept Of Exchange, Paul J. Gudel

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Samuel Williston's Struggle With Depression, Allen D. Boyer Jan 1994

Samuel Williston's Struggle With Depression, Allen D. Boyer

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


How To Read, Or At Least Not Misread, Cardozo In The Allegheny College Case, Alfred S. Konefsky Oct 1987

How To Read, Or At Least Not Misread, Cardozo In The Allegheny College Case, Alfred S. Konefsky

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contractual Theories Of Recovery In The Hmo Provider-Subscriber Relationship: Prospective Litigation For Breach Of Contract, Randolph E. Sarnacki Jan 1987

Contractual Theories Of Recovery In The Hmo Provider-Subscriber Relationship: Prospective Litigation For Breach Of Contract, Randolph E. Sarnacki

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Providing Municipal Services In New York State: The "Private Contract" Alternative, Thomas J. Kelly Jr. Jul 1979

Providing Municipal Services In New York State: The "Private Contract" Alternative, Thomas J. Kelly Jr.

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contractual Liability Of Physicians: The Interface Of Tort And Contract, David N. Wynn Jul 1979

Contractual Liability Of Physicians: The Interface Of Tort And Contract, David N. Wynn

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contracts—Warranties, Unconscionability, And The Parol Evidence Rule—Industralease Automated & (And) Scientific Corp. V. R.M.E. Enterprises, Inc., Lawrence S. Goldberg Jul 1978

Contracts—Warranties, Unconscionability, And The Parol Evidence Rule—Industralease Automated & (And) Scientific Corp. V. R.M.E. Enterprises, Inc., Lawrence S. Goldberg

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Medical Data Privacy: Automated Interference With Contractual Relations, John J. Fargo Jan 1976

Medical Data Privacy: Automated Interference With Contractual Relations, John J. Fargo

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Employment At Will And The Law Of Contracts, Dennis M. Hyatt Oct 1973

Employment At Will And The Law Of Contracts, Dennis M. Hyatt

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Toward A Law Of Academic Status, Matthew W. Finkin Jan 1973

Toward A Law Of Academic Status, Matthew W. Finkin

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Back Pay Awards: A Remedy Under Executive Order 11246, M. Brian Moroze Jan 1973

Back Pay Awards: A Remedy Under Executive Order 11246, M. Brian Moroze

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Treatment Of Debtors, O. John Rogge Oct 1972

Treatment Of Debtors, O. John Rogge

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cases And Materials On Contracts, Exchange Transactions And Relationships. By Ian R. Macneil., Charles Edward Donegan Jan 1972

Cases And Materials On Contracts, Exchange Transactions And Relationships. By Ian R. Macneil., Charles Edward Donegan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Miscalculation In Contracts: The Tort-Schema In German And Common Law, Robert Dugan Apr 1969

Miscalculation In Contracts: The Tort-Schema In German And Common Law, Robert Dugan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Accord And Satisfaction: Conditional Tender By Check Under The Uniform Commercial Code, Howard T. Reben Apr 1969

Accord And Satisfaction: Conditional Tender By Check Under The Uniform Commercial Code, Howard T. Reben

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legal And Moral Duty In Game Theory: Common Law Contract And Chinese Analogies, Robert L. Birmingham Oct 1968

Legal And Moral Duty In Game Theory: Common Law Contract And Chinese Analogies, Robert L. Birmingham

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Need For Protection Of The Consumer Of Services, Robert M. Feinson Oct 1968

The Need For Protection Of The Consumer Of Services, Robert M. Feinson

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contracts—The Effect Of The Statute Of Frauds On An Implied Contract, David Brown Dec 1964

Contracts—The Effect Of The Statute Of Frauds On An Implied Contract, David Brown

Buffalo Law Review

Cinefot International Corp. v. Hudson Photographic Industries, 13 N.Y.2d 249, 196 N.E.2d 54, 246 N.Y.S.2d 395 (1963).


State And Local Contracts And Subcontracts, J. Edward Conway Oct 1964

State And Local Contracts And Subcontracts, J. Edward Conway

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Local Contracts And Sub-Contracts: The Roles Of City Government And Private Citizen Groups, Madison S. Jones Oct 1964

Local Contracts And Sub-Contracts: The Roles Of City Government And Private Citizen Groups, Madison S. Jones

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contracts—Contract Intended To Release Liability For Negligence Invalidated—Language Not Sufficiently Explicit, James B. Denman Oct 1963

Contracts—Contract Intended To Release Liability For Negligence Invalidated—Language Not Sufficiently Explicit, James B. Denman

Buffalo Law Review

Willard Van Dyke Prods. v. Eastman Kodak Co., 12 N.Y.2d 301, 189 N.E.2d 693, 239 N.Y.S.2d 337 (1963).


Contracts—Attorney-Accountant Agreement To Split Fee Enforceable Provided Each Renders Services Only In His Respective Field, Anthony S. Kowalski Oct 1963

Contracts—Attorney-Accountant Agreement To Split Fee Enforceable Provided Each Renders Services Only In His Respective Field, Anthony S. Kowalski

Buffalo Law Review

Blumenberg v. Neubecker, 12 N.Y.2d 456, 191 N.E.2d 269, 240 N.Y.S.2d 730 (1963).


Contracts—Warranties Of Manufacturer Concerning Design And Construction Of Generating Units Declared Not Prospective In Nature, R. B. S. Oct 1962

Contracts—Warranties Of Manufacturer Concerning Design And Construction Of Generating Units Declared Not Prospective In Nature, R. B. S.

Buffalo Law Review

Citizens Utilities Co. v. American Locomotive Co., 11 N.Y.2d. 409, 184 N.E.2d 171, 230 N.Y.S.2d 194 (1962).