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Contract Law In The Agri-Food Supply Chain, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi Jan 2021

Contract Law In The Agri-Food Supply Chain, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Changing The Game: The Effects Of The 2012 Revision Of The Icc Arbitration Rules On The Icc Model Arbitration Clause For Trust Disputes, Colin Connor Jul 2016

Changing The Game: The Effects Of The 2012 Revision Of The Icc Arbitration Rules On The Icc Model Arbitration Clause For Trust Disputes, Colin Connor

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


"I'M Just Some Guy": Positing And Leveraging Legal Subjects In Consumer Contracts And The Global Market, Tal Kastner Jul 2016

"I'M Just Some Guy": Positing And Leveraging Legal Subjects In Consumer Contracts And The Global Market, Tal Kastner

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article considers how legal frameworks shape the autonomous subject in a global economy. It makes salient the ways that different legal frameworks presume and enforce a particular subjectivity by positing certain behavioral expectations of various subjects. It does so through a focus on the underexplored rhetoric and implicit narratives of consumer contract law and transactional practice in the American and European regimes. By comparing the approach of the European Union to consumer contract, which posits the consumer as facing significant constraints on agency, to that in the United States, which elides functional limits of consumer knowledge and choice, this …


The Constitutionalization Of Indian Private Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh Jan 2016

The Constitutionalization Of Indian Private Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh

Faculty Scholarship

This chapter examines the relationship between private law and constitutional law in India, with particular emphasis on tort law. It considers the Indian Supreme Court’s expansion of its fundamental rights jurisprudence over the past thirty years, as well as its effort to transcend the public law/private law divide. It also explains how the Court’s fusion of constitutional law and tort law has affected the independent efficacy, normativity, and analytical basis of equivalent private law claims in India. It argues that the Court’s efforts have only undermined the overall legitimacy of private law mechanisms in the country, and that this phenomenon …


Mistaken Identity And Its Effect On Contractual Validity: Some Cases Frm The English Courts, Anthony Finucane Jul 2015

Mistaken Identity And Its Effect On Contractual Validity: Some Cases Frm The English Courts, Anthony Finucane

Akron Law Review

The doctrine of mistake has grown increasingly complicated with the passage of time. Nowhere is that complexity more obvious than in the area of unilateral mistake, of which the distinguishing feature is that the mistake made by one party is known to, and almost invariably induced by the fraud of, the other.


“Islamic Law” In Us Courts: Judicial Jihad Or Constitutional Imperative?, Faisal Kutty Feb 2015

“Islamic Law” In Us Courts: Judicial Jihad Or Constitutional Imperative?, Faisal Kutty

Pepperdine Law Review

At the beginning of 2014, about a dozen states introduced or re-introduced bills to ban the use of Sharī’ah law. They hope to join the seven states that have ostensibly banned it to date. Anti-Sharī’ah advocates have cited a number of cases to back their tenuous claim that Sharī’ah is stealthily sneaking in through the doctrine of comity, but a close examination of the cases they cite contradicts their claim. Comity, when one court defers to the jurisdiction of another, has been accepted and denied based on legal principles and public policy, on a case-by-case basis. There is no creeping …


Limits Of Procedural Choice Of Law, S. I. Strong Jan 2014

Limits Of Procedural Choice Of Law, S. I. Strong

Faculty Publications

Commercial parties have long enjoyed significant autonomy in questions of substantive law. However, litigants do not have anywhere near the same amount of freedom to decide procedural matters. Instead, parties in litigation are generally considered to be subject to the procedural law of the forum court.

Although this particular conflict of laws rule has been in place for many years, a number of recent developments have challenged courts and commentators to consider whether and to what extent procedural rules should be considered mandatory in nature. If procedural rules are not mandatory but are instead merely “sticky” defaults, then it may …


The Banking Contract As A Special Contract: The Israeli Approach, Ruth Plato-Shinar Oct 2013

The Banking Contract As A Special Contract: The Israeli Approach, Ruth Plato-Shinar

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chinese Contract Formation: The Roles Of Confucianism, Communism, And International Influences, Amy Lee Rosen May 2013

Chinese Contract Formation: The Roles Of Confucianism, Communism, And International Influences, Amy Lee Rosen

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

China has opened its doors to the world so understanding Chinese contract law is crucial to succeeding in international business transactions. The United States and China are both signatories to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), and both nations have declared that neither are bound under Article 1(1)(b), which means that if a contractual conflict arises, the domestic law of either nation may apply when interpreting the contract. China only requires offer and acceptance whereas the United States requires mutual assent and consideration, so contract interpretation may be problematic. Beyond offer and acceptance, …


The Puzzle Of "Freedom Of Contract" In China's Contract Law, Jun Zhao Jan 2010

The Puzzle Of "Freedom Of Contract" In China's Contract Law, Jun Zhao

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Recent events have intensified the debates over "freedom of contract" and governmental intervention in China: the Shanxi coal mining reform and the forced mergers, the corkage fee dispute in Guizhou, the offers posted on the Internet selling human milk, contractual surrogacy arrangement, contractually designed money laundering scam in western China under the name of western China development, just to name a few


When Are Agreements Enforceable? Giving Consideration To Professor Barnett's Consent Theory Of Contract, James Maxeiner Jan 2006

When Are Agreements Enforceable? Giving Consideration To Professor Barnett's Consent Theory Of Contract, James Maxeiner

All Faculty Scholarship

This address considers five points: (1) the place of theory in American contract law; (2) the basic elements of Professor Barnett's theory are; (3) how these elements are similar to Continental law; (4) what it says about the American legal world that Barnett's theory has been discussed without reference to Continental systems; and, finally, (5) why I believe the American model is not a good one for a future European Civil Code but also hope that such a Code will become law.


Workplace Sexual Harassment In Singapore: The Legal Challenge, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Dec 1998

Workplace Sexual Harassment In Singapore: The Legal Challenge, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

Jack Tsen-Ta LEE

This article examines the nature and prevalence of sexual harassment in the work environment, and compares civil and criminal law in Singapore to the approaches taken by various jurisdictions in dealing with the problem. It is submitted that legislation is needed to protect employees, as Singapore law currently does not present any clear and coherent means for victims to seek redress for workplace sexual harassment.


À Propos D’Instruments Protecteurs De La Liberté De Contracter Valablement Dans La Jurisprudence Italienne, Mauro Bussani Dec 1997

À Propos D’Instruments Protecteurs De La Liberté De Contracter Valablement Dans La Jurisprudence Italienne, Mauro Bussani

Mauro Bussani

The paper analyzes Italian contract law with regard to the remedies available to the party who enters into an invalid agreement. The article focuses on how Italian courts have so far interpreted the rules laid down in the civil code, the doctrines developed by scholars alongside these rules, and the actual meaning of the notion of fault when applied to these cases.


The Law Of Contracts In Communist Countries (Russia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia And Hungary), Wencelas J. Wagner Jan 1963

The Law Of Contracts In Communist Countries (Russia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia And Hungary), Wencelas J. Wagner

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


The Interplay Of Planned Economy And Traditional Contract Rules In Poland, Wencelas J. Wagner Jan 1962

The Interplay Of Planned Economy And Traditional Contract Rules In Poland, Wencelas J. Wagner

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.