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Real Estate Law, Richard W. Gregory, Lindsey Dobbs Chase
Real Estate Law, Richard W. Gregory, Lindsey Dobbs Chase
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Construction Law, D. Stan Barnhill
Construction Law, D. Stan Barnhill
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Uneasy Lies The Tiara: Crowns, Contracts, And The Rebekah Revels Litigation, Amanda Harmon Cooley
Uneasy Lies The Tiara: Crowns, Contracts, And The Rebekah Revels Litigation, Amanda Harmon Cooley
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
In the last five years, news of various scandals in the pageant industry has inundated media outlets. These recent incidents are by no means outliers in the history of pageantry. This article explores the significance of one of these controversies - the Rebekah Revels litigation, which stemmed from the disputed 2002 Miss North Carolina pageant.
For context, this article first outlines allegations of wrongdoing in early pageants. It proceeds with an analysis of how the Revels litigation serves as an exemplar of the types of contract lawsuits that may continue to entangle pageant organizations in the future. Finally, the article …
Arbitration Costs And Forum Accessibility: Empirical Evidence, Christopher R. Drahozal
Arbitration Costs And Forum Accessibility: Empirical Evidence, Christopher R. Drahozal
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In this Article, written for this symposium issue on "Empirical Studies of Mandatory Arbitration," I examine the available empirical evidence on these two questions. I take "mandatory arbitration" to refer to pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer and employment (and maybe franchise) contracts. Accordingly, I limit my consideration of the empirical evidence to those types of contracts. I do not discuss empirical studies of international arbitrations, which almost always arise out of agreements between commercial entities. Nor do I discuss empirical studies of court-annexed arbitrations, which may not derive from party agreement and do not ordinarily proceed to a binding award.
Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study Of Arbitration Clauses In Consumer And Nonconsumer Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller, Emily Sherwin
Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study Of Arbitration Clauses In Consumer And Nonconsumer Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller, Emily Sherwin
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
We provide the first study of varying use of arbitration clauses across contracts within the same firms. Using a sample of 26 consumer contracts and 164 nonconsumer contracts from large public corporations, we compared the use of arbitration clauses in firms' consumer and nonconsumer contracts. Over three-quarters of the consumer agreements provided for mandatory arbitration but less than 10% of the firms' material nonconsumer, nonemployment contracts included arbitration clauses. The absence of arbitration provisions in the vast majority of material contracts suggests that, ex ante, many firms value, even prefer, litigation over arbitration to resolve disputes with peers. Our data …
How Bad Are Mandatory Arbitration Terms?, Omri Ben-Shahar
How Bad Are Mandatory Arbitration Terms?, Omri Ben-Shahar
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This symposium was presented in the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Contracts Section of the American Association of Law Schools. Indeed, studying the unconscionability of arbitration terms has become a standard feature of first-year contracts courses. This is perhaps one of the hotter topics in today's contract law and policy. Contractual rights, as they are enforced by contract law, might have substantially different values depending on the venue through which they can be vindicated. It is hard to predict how these values differ, but hopefully this symposium will inform some of these predictions.
Acquisition Of Real Estate In Mexico By U.S. Citizens And American Companies, Jorge A. Vargas
Acquisition Of Real Estate In Mexico By U.S. Citizens And American Companies, Jorge A. Vargas
San Diego International Law Journal
Buying real estate in Mexico, or enjoying the beneficiary rights through a real estate trust, known in Mexico as fideicomiso, involves a considerable amount of money and effort. One must take into account that this legal transaction is executed in Mexico in accordance with Mexican law-a foreign legal system belonging to the civil legal tradition, contrasted by the U.S. legal system derivative of the common law tradition-and recognize that Americans and U.S. legal entities are typically quite unfamiliar with Mexican law. This Article provides a complete overview of the process of acquiring real estate in Mexico by Americans and U.S. …
Branding The Small Wonder: Delaware's Dominance And The Market For Corporate Law, Omari Scott Simmons
Branding The Small Wonder: Delaware's Dominance And The Market For Corporate Law, Omari Scott Simmons
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Drafting Common Interest Community Documents: Minimalism In An Era Of Micromanagement, Patrick K. Hetrick
Drafting Common Interest Community Documents: Minimalism In An Era Of Micromanagement, Patrick K. Hetrick
Campbell Law Review
Part I of this Article suggests a minimalist approach to the drafting of documentation creating a common interest community. It assumes that the common interest community will be located in a jurisdiction that has passed some form of a comprehensive uniform act. Part II then analyzes the issue of "promises" (covenants, restrictions, and rules) and addresses issues that include the unfortunate contemporary trend toward micromanagement of communities. It goes on to suggest that a legislative and judicial reaction to private community governance is developing. Part III of this Article explains why existing consumer protection devices are little more than mirages …
The Citizenship Paradox In A Transnational Age, Cristina M. Rodríguez
The Citizenship Paradox In A Transnational Age, Cristina M. Rodríguez
Michigan Law Review
Through Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura tells us three different stories about how U.S. law and policy, over time, have framed the relationship between immigrants and the American body politic. He captures the complexity, historical contingency, and democratic urgency of that relationship by canvassing the immigration law canon and teasing from it the three frameworks that have structured immigrants' social status, their interactions with the state, and the processes of immigrant integration and naturalization. In so doing, he illuminates how popular mythologies about the assimilative capacity of the American melting pot obscure myriad political and social conflicts over how …
Principled Pluralism And Contract Remedies, C. Scott Pryor
Principled Pluralism And Contract Remedies, C. Scott Pryor
McGeorge Law Review
No abstract provided.
Can We Dicker Online Or Is Traditional Contract Formation Really Dying - Rethinking Traditional Contract Formation For The World Wide Web, Tatiana Melnik
Can We Dicker Online Or Is Traditional Contract Formation Really Dying - Rethinking Traditional Contract Formation For The World Wide Web, Tatiana Melnik
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
When most people imagine the process of contract formation, they picture two people sitting down and negotiating, arguing about particular contract provisions and particular contract terminology, and maybe even involving attorneys to draft an "official" version of the contract. Regardless of the specific details people imagine, traditional contract formation generally involves some form of negotiation between two parties where they choose one set of terms over another. In modern society, however, such negotiation happens very rarely. People enter into many contracts on a daily basis, for example, when they purchase goods or services online. Online purchases are governed by computers, …
E-Contract Doctrine 2.0: Standard Form Contracting In The Age Of Online User Participation , Shmuel I. Becher, Tal Z. Zarsky
E-Contract Doctrine 2.0: Standard Form Contracting In The Age Of Online User Participation , Shmuel I. Becher, Tal Z. Zarsky
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
The growing popularity of e-commerce transactions revives the perennial question of consumer contract law: should non-salient provisions of consumer standard form contracts be enforced? With the focus presently on an ex-ante analysis, scholars debate whether consumers can and should read standardized terms at the time of contracting. In today's information age, such a focus might be misguided. The online realm furnishes various tools, so-called "Web 2.0" applications, which encourage the flow of information from experienced to prospective consumers. This Article, therefore, reframes the analysis of online consumer contracts while taking into account this new flow of information. In doing so, …
Is A Burrito A Sandwich? Exploring Race, Class, And Culture In Contracts, Marjorie Florestal
Is A Burrito A Sandwich? Exploring Race, Class, And Culture In Contracts, Marjorie Florestal
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
A superior court in Worcester, Massachusetts, recently determined that a burrito is not a sandwich. Surprisingly, the decision sparked a firestorm of media attention. Worcester, Massachusetts, is hardly the pinnacle of the culinary arts-so why all the interest in the musings of one lone judge on the nature of burritos and sandwiches? Closer inspection revealed the allure of this otherwise peculiar case: Potentially thousands of dollars turned on the interpretation of a single word in a single clause of a commercial contract. Judge Locke based his decision on "common sense" and a single definition of sandwich-"two thin pieces of bread, …
Who's Afraid Of The Cisg? Why North Carolina Practitioners Should Learn A Thing Or Two About The 1980 United Nations Convention On The Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, Alicia Jurney Whitlock, Boris S. Abbey
Who's Afraid Of The Cisg? Why North Carolina Practitioners Should Learn A Thing Or Two About The 1980 United Nations Convention On The Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, Alicia Jurney Whitlock, Boris S. Abbey
Campbell Law Review
Part I of this article will discuss the history and purpose of the CISG. Part II will consider the applicability of the CISG to international commercial contracts where one contracting party is from the United States. Part III will discuss some notable differences between the CISG and North Carolina law. Finally, Part IV will consider situations in which the CISG may better serve the interests of parties to a contract for the international sale of goods than the U.C.C. or North Carolina common law.
Jung V. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Zachary Kerner
Jung V. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Zachary Kerner
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Enduring Legacy Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, James J. Fishman
The Enduring Legacy Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, James J. Fishman
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Neutral Standardizing Of Contracts, Joseph M. Perillo
Neutral Standardizing Of Contracts, Joseph M. Perillo
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Implied, Inferred, And Imposed: Default Rules And Adhesion Contracts - The Need For Radical Surgery, Peter Linzer
Implied, Inferred, And Imposed: Default Rules And Adhesion Contracts - The Need For Radical Surgery, Peter Linzer
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Exploring (Social) Class In The Classroom: The Case Of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Miriam A. Cherry
Exploring (Social) Class In The Classroom: The Case Of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Miriam A. Cherry
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Teaching Ethics In Context: Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon In The First Year Curriculum, Celia R. Taylor
Teaching Ethics In Context: Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon In The First Year Curriculum, Celia R. Taylor
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Integrating Academic Skills Into First Year Curricula: Using Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon To Teach The Role Of Facts In Legal Reasoning, Deborah Zalesne, David Nadvorney
Integrating Academic Skills Into First Year Curricula: Using Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon To Teach The Role Of Facts In Legal Reasoning, Deborah Zalesne, David Nadvorney
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
What It's Worth To Do Your Best, Andrew Tettenborn
What It's Worth To Do Your Best, Andrew Tettenborn
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cardozo, Anti-Formalism, And The Fiction Of Noninterventionism, Larry A. Dimatteo
Cardozo, Anti-Formalism, And The Fiction Of Noninterventionism, Larry A. Dimatteo
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Picture Of The New York Court Of Appeals At The Time Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Meredith R. Miller
A Picture Of The New York Court Of Appeals At The Time Of Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Meredith R. Miller
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Wood V. Duff-Gordon And The Modernist Cult Of Personality, Megan Richardson, David Tan
Wood V. Duff-Gordon And The Modernist Cult Of Personality, Megan Richardson, David Tan
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cardozo's Opinion In Lady Lucy's Case: Formative Unconscionability, Impracticality And Judicial Abuse, Monroe H. Freedman
Cardozo's Opinion In Lady Lucy's Case: Formative Unconscionability, Impracticality And Judicial Abuse, Monroe H. Freedman
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Employment Contract Instinct With An Obligation: Good Faith Costs And Contexts, Robert C. Bird
An Employment Contract Instinct With An Obligation: Good Faith Costs And Contexts, Robert C. Bird
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fulfilling Lucy's Legacy: Recognizing Implicit Good-Faith Obligations Within Explicit Job Duties, Emily Gold Waldman
Fulfilling Lucy's Legacy: Recognizing Implicit Good-Faith Obligations Within Explicit Job Duties, Emily Gold Waldman
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Good Faith And Fair Dealing In Commercial Leasing: The Right Doctrine In The Wrong Transaction, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 275 (2008), Daniel B. Bogart
Good Faith And Fair Dealing In Commercial Leasing: The Right Doctrine In The Wrong Transaction, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 275 (2008), Daniel B. Bogart
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.