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The Strategy Of Boilerplate, Robert B. Ahdieh Mar 2006

The Strategy Of Boilerplate, Robert B. Ahdieh

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Boilerplate can be exciting. It is this, perhaps hard-to-swallow, proposition that the present analysis attempts to convey. Particularly in invoking the work of Thomas Schelling on the role of focal points in coordination games, it offers what can be characterized as a "strategic" theory of boilerplate, in which boilerplate plays an active, even aggressive, role.

Contrary to the relatively inert quality of boilerplate implied by conventional treatments in the legal literature, boilerplate may serve essential signaling and coordination functions in contract bargaining. In appropriate circumstances, its proposed usage may be a valuable weapon in the arsenal of a bargaining party, …


Civil Contempt Confinement And The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention And Consumer Protection Act Of 2005: An Examination Of Debtor Incarceration In The Modern Age, Jayne S. Ressler Jan 2006

Civil Contempt Confinement And The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention And Consumer Protection Act Of 2005: An Examination Of Debtor Incarceration In The Modern Age, Jayne S. Ressler

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