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The Enduring Legacy Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, James J. Fishman Jan 2008

The Enduring Legacy Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, James J. Fishman

Pace Law Review

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Wood V. Lucy: The Overlap Between Interpretation And Gap-Filling To Achieve Minimum Decencies, Nicholas R. Weiskopf Jan 2008

Wood V. Lucy: The Overlap Between Interpretation And Gap-Filling To Achieve Minimum Decencies, Nicholas R. Weiskopf

Pace Law Review

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A Picture Of The New York Court Of Appeals At The Time Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Meredith R. Miller Jan 2008

A Picture Of The New York Court Of Appeals At The Time Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Meredith R. Miller

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Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon is an enduring part of the Contracts canon. A symposium addressing the legacy of the case would be incomplete without a picture of the New York Court of Appeals at the time the case was decided and a discussion of the oft-neglected role that court rules and administration play in the development of the law. Thus, it is the aim of this short essay to place Wood in the context of the Court's history, and to explore how structural and jurisdictional changes to the Court could have had an impact on how the case was …