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Commercial Law

Texas A&M University School of Law

Faculty Scholarship

2016

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Consumer Preferences For Performances Defaults, Franklin G. Snyder, Ann M. Mirabito Oct 2016

Consumer Preferences For Performances Defaults, Franklin G. Snyder, Ann M. Mirabito

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Commercial law in the United States is designed to facilitate private transactions, and thus to enforce the presumed intent of the parties, who generally are free to negotiate the terms they choose. But these contracts inevitably have gaps, both because the parties cannot anticipate every situation that might arise from their relationship, and because negotiation is not costless. When courts are faced with these gaps in a litigation context, they supply default terms to fill them. These defaults usually are set to reflect what courts believe similar parties would have agreed to if they had addressed the issue. These "majoritarian" …


Drugs, Drugs Everywhere But Just Not For The Poor, Srividhya Ragavan Jan 2016

Drugs, Drugs Everywhere But Just Not For The Poor, Srividhya Ragavan

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The objective for this article is to understand the legitimacy and limitations of US involvement in another country’s sovereign actions taken expressly in the public interest, or to protect public health, such as the compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals.