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Statutory Personal Property Lease Law In Alabama, Peter A. Alces, P. Cade Newman
Statutory Personal Property Lease Law In Alabama, Peter A. Alces, P. Cade Newman
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Frontispiece On Good Faith: A Functional Approach Within The Ucc, Christina L. Kunz
Frontispiece On Good Faith: A Functional Approach Within The Ucc, Christina L. Kunz
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This article examines areas of the law with thin jurisprudences on good faith, and how the Uniform Commercial Code’s (UCC’s) express statutory rules have become an active laboratory of experiments on good faith. Part I discusses the general obligation of good faith under the UCC. Part II lays out and discusses how the specific UCC provisions on good faith serve one or more of the following functions: restrict the exercise of one-sided power in a contract, in order to avoid unfair or unexpected results; restrict the range of possible responses to defective performance or to an unexpected event, in order …
Consequential Damages In Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods And The Legacy Of Hadley, Arthur Murphey
Consequential Damages In Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods And The Legacy Of Hadley, Arthur Murphey
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Pitfalls Of Public Policy: The Case Of Arbitration Agreements, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Pitfalls Of Public Policy: The Case Of Arbitration Agreements, Jeffrey W. Stempel
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As the juxtaposition of these quotations suggests, judges have long held disparate views on the legitimacy and value of “public policy” considerations as a basis for legal decision making. The popular notion posits that Justice Holmes and legal realists carried the day, making public policy analysis an ordinary part of the adjudication process. The story, of course, is more complex than this legal version of Don Quixote. Many judges and lawyers, including Justice Holmes in other writings, continued to speak of adjudication in more formalist and positivist terms, with most laypersons in apparent agreement. Judge Burroughs' view of public policy …