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Private Copyright Reform, Kristelia A. García Dec 2013

Private Copyright Reform, Kristelia A. García

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

The government is not the only player in copyright reform, and perhaps not even the most important. Left to free market negotiation, risk averse licensors and licensees are contracting around the statutory license for certain types of copyright-protected content, and achieving greater efficiency via private ordering. This emerging phenomenon, herein termed “private copyright reform,” presents both adverse selection and distributive justice concerns: first, circumvention of the statutory license goes against legislative intent by allowing for the reduction, and even elimination, of statutorily mandated royalties owed to non-parties. In addition, when presented without full term disclosure, privately determined royalty rates can …


Cases And Controversies: Some Things To Do With Contracts Cases, Charles L. Knapp Dec 2013

Cases And Controversies: Some Things To Do With Contracts Cases, Charles L. Knapp

Washington Law Review

As a co-author of one of the two dozen or more currently-in-print Contracts casebooks, I obviously have both a point of view about, and a personal stake in, the survival of this particular method of instruction. Whether the legal casebook—or any other book, in the form of bound sheets of paper—will remain a part of our academic culture much longer is clearly up for grabs, however. Electronic records have so many advantages over the printed page that, at least for many purposes, they will surely become the dominant form of preserving, retrieving, and transmitting information, if indeed they are not …


The Perspective Of Law On Contract, Aditi Bagchi Dec 2013

The Perspective Of Law On Contract, Aditi Bagchi

Washington Law Review

What is the perspective of law on contract? This Article will consider two dimensions of the perspective we offer students. Part I will consider how we present the nature of contract law. That is, it will explore the extent to which traditional methods of teaching unduly underplay indeterminacy and disagreement. In that Part I distinguish between inductive and deductive legal reasoning and suggest we may give short shrift to the former in teaching. Part II will consider the attitude of the law toward contract as a social practice. Here I distinguish between internal and external perspectives on law and suggest …


Contract Texts, Contract Teaching, Contract Law: Comment On Lawrence Cunningham, Contracts In The Real World, Brian H. Bix Dec 2013

Contract Texts, Contract Teaching, Contract Law: Comment On Lawrence Cunningham, Contracts In The Real World, Brian H. Bix

Washington Law Review

Lawrence Cunningham’s Contracts in the Real World offers a good starting place for necessary conversations about how contract law should be taught, and, more generally, for when and how cases—in summary form or in longer excerpts—are useful in teaching the law. This Article tries to offer some reasons for thinking that their prevalence may reflect important truths about contract law in particular and law and legal education in general.


Reflections On Contracts In The Real World: History, Currency, Context, And Other Values, Lawrence A. Cunningham Dec 2013

Reflections On Contracts In The Real World: History, Currency, Context, And Other Values, Lawrence A. Cunningham

Washington Law Review

It is gratifying to read that this symposium issue of the Washington Law Review was stimulated by Contracts in the Real World. Thanks to the editors for the opportunity to ruminate on the place of the book’s approach—stressing context through stories—in the tradition of contracts pedagogy. To that end, Part I first pinpoints relevant historical milestones in the field of contracts casebooks. Building on that historical grounding, Part II then highlights the values of currency and context that the stories approach epitomizes. Turning more speculative, Part III considers the value of this approach from the perspective of the purpose …


Contract Stories: Importance Of The Contextual Approach To Law, Larry A. Dimatteo Dec 2013

Contract Stories: Importance Of The Contextual Approach To Law, Larry A. Dimatteo

Washington Law Review

How law is taught is at the center of the debate over the need to change legal education to better prepare students for a difficult and changing marketplace for legal services. This Article analyzes the benefits of using “stories” to teach law. The stories to be discussed relate to contract law: this Article asks whether they can be used to improve the method and content of teaching law. The ruminations offered on teaching contract law, however, are also relevant to teaching other core, first-year law courses.


Contract As Pattern Language, Erik F. Gerding Dec 2013

Contract As Pattern Language, Erik F. Gerding

Washington Law Review

This essay examines how patterns enable the transformation of contractual provisions into contracts, contracts into transactions, and transactions into markets. Although contract design patterns are broader than contract boilerplate (as described in Part II.C. below), some of the extensive legal scholarship on boilerplate19 helps explain how contract patterns generate agreements, transactions, and markets. The work of Henry Smith on the modularity of contract boilerplate proves particularly useful in this regard. Contract patterns perform several functions. Contract patterns break complex problems and bargains into components. Attorneys can then repeatedly apply these particular solutions to similar problems. Patterns also serve as heuristics …


Unilateral Reordering In The Reel World, Jake Linford Dec 2013

Unilateral Reordering In The Reel World, Jake Linford

Washington Law Review

Professor Larry Cunningham’s new book, Contracts in the Real World, demonstrates that there is much to learn about contract law from a few well-chosen stories. The goal of this Essay is to provide a similar service, relying on stories gleaned from movies and television—contracts in the “reel world,” so to speak—to illustrate and then undermine the traditional stories told about contract formation and modification. We can learn much from the scenes discussed herein about how consumers might be led to think contracts are formed, and perhaps misled about the certainty contracts provide.


Unpopular Contracts And Why They Matter: Burying Langdell And Enlivening Students, Jennifer S. Taub Dec 2013

Unpopular Contracts And Why They Matter: Burying Langdell And Enlivening Students, Jennifer S. Taub

Washington Law Review

Thus, the purpose of this piece is to provide an alternative: a transformation of how Contracts is taught in law schools so that we meet a variety of educational objectives. This is less of a prescription than it is a resolution made in the public sphere: a promise to shake things up in my own classroom and thus hopefully do better by students in the long run. It is also the beginning of a search to benchmark against the practices of others, and to seek input from those who have already begun to transform their Contracts teaching materials and methods. …


Misplaced Misrepresentations: Why Misrepresentation-Of-Age Statutes Must Be Reinterpreted As They Apply To Children’S Online Contracts, Michelle A. Sargent Nov 2013

Misplaced Misrepresentations: Why Misrepresentation-Of-Age Statutes Must Be Reinterpreted As They Apply To Children’S Online Contracts, Michelle A. Sargent

Michigan Law Review

The information age revolutionized the relationship between individuals and the internet. Today, children are the targets of online advertisements that lure them into accepting terms of service, thus entering into online agreements. While children may feel comfortable navigating websites, they are psychologically predisposed to be unsophisticated and impulsive actors online. Children lack the digital literacy to understand the implications of accepting website terms of service. Meanwhile, several states have misrepresentation-of-age statutes that prevent children from using the infancy doctrine to disaffirm online contracts because, in accepting the terms of service, children often represent that they are old enough to enter …


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.


Consumer Contracts Law As A Special Branch Of Contract Law---The Israeli Model, Sinai Deutch Oct 2013

Consumer Contracts Law As A Special Branch Of Contract Law---The Israeli Model, Sinai Deutch

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mothering For Money: Regulating Commercial Intimacy, Surrogacy, Adoption,, Pamela Laufer-Ukeles Oct 2013

Mothering For Money: Regulating Commercial Intimacy, Surrogacy, Adoption,, Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

Indiana Law Journal

Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012


New Thinking On Commercial Surrogacy, Richard F. Storrow Oct 2013

New Thinking On Commercial Surrogacy, Richard F. Storrow

Indiana Law Journal

Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012


Duty In The Litigation-Investment Agreement: The Choice Between Tort And Contract Norms When The Deal Breaks Down, Anthony J. Sebok, W. Bradley Wendel Oct 2013

Duty In The Litigation-Investment Agreement: The Choice Between Tort And Contract Norms When The Deal Breaks Down, Anthony J. Sebok, W. Bradley Wendel

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Article begins by describing the market for investment in commercial litigationA Litigation-investment transactions share features of existing economic relationships, such as commercial lending, liability insurance, contingent fee-financed representation, and venture capital, but none of these existing practices furnishes a suitable analogy for regulating litigation investment. Like third-party insurance, litigation investment is a way to manage the risk associated with litigation while bringing to bear the particular subject matter expertise of a risk-neutral institutional actor. Insurance companies and litigation investors may be systematically in a better position to reduce the risk of litigation, either through risk pooling or information-cost advantages. …


An Overview Of The Cisg And An Introduction To The Debate About The Future Convention, Michael Bridge Sep 2013

An Overview Of The Cisg And An Introduction To The Debate About The Future Convention, Michael Bridge

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Possible Future Work By Uncitral In The Field Of Contract Law: Preliminary Thoughts From The Secretariat, Renaud Sorieul, Emma Hatcher, Cyril Emery Sep 2013

Possible Future Work By Uncitral In The Field Of Contract Law: Preliminary Thoughts From The Secretariat, Renaud Sorieul, Emma Hatcher, Cyril Emery

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Soft Law Approach To Unification Of International Commercial Contract Law: Future Perspectives In Light Of Unidroit's Experience, Anna Veneziano Sep 2013

The Soft Law Approach To Unification Of International Commercial Contract Law: Future Perspectives In Light Of Unidroit's Experience, Anna Veneziano

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Article 35 Of The Cisg: Reflecting On The Present And Thinking About The Future, Djakhongir Saidov Sep 2013

Article 35 Of The Cisg: Reflecting On The Present And Thinking About The Future, Djakhongir Saidov

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Defining The Borders Of Uniform International Contract Law: The Cisg And Remedies For Innocent, Negligent, Or Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Ulrich G. Schroeter Sep 2013

Defining The Borders Of Uniform International Contract Law: The Cisg And Remedies For Innocent, Negligent, Or Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Ulrich G. Schroeter

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Principles Of Asian Contract Law: An Endeavor Of Regional Harmonization Of Contract Law In East Asia, Shiyuan Han Sep 2013

Principles Of Asian Contract Law: An Endeavor Of Regional Harmonization Of Contract Law In East Asia, Shiyuan Han

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Intrepretation In Mexico Of The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, Alejandro Osuna-Ganzalez Sep 2013

The Intrepretation In Mexico Of The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, Alejandro Osuna-Ganzalez

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Law Wars: Australian Contract Law Reform Vs. Cisg Vs. Cesl, Lisa Spagnolo Sep 2013

Law Wars: Australian Contract Law Reform Vs. Cisg Vs. Cesl, Lisa Spagnolo

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unidroit Principles As A Source For Global Sales Law, Henry Deeb Gabriel Sep 2013

Unidroit Principles As A Source For Global Sales Law, Henry Deeb Gabriel

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cisg As Basis Of A Comprehensive International Sales Law, Larry A. Dimatteo Sep 2013

Cisg As Basis Of A Comprehensive International Sales Law, Larry A. Dimatteo

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Who Needs A Uniform Contract Law, And Why?, Ingeborg Schwenzer Sep 2013

Who Needs A Uniform Contract Law, And Why?, Ingeborg Schwenzer

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Applicable Law, The Cisg, And The Future Convention On International Commercial Contracts, Pilar Perales Viscasillas Sep 2013

Applicable Law, The Cisg, And The Future Convention On International Commercial Contracts, Pilar Perales Viscasillas

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Attorneys' Fees -- Last Ditch Stand?, Bruno Zeller Sep 2013

Attorneys' Fees -- Last Ditch Stand?, Bruno Zeller

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Hypothetical Efficiency Is Not Grounds For Breach, Daniel M. Isaacs Sep 2013

Hypothetical Efficiency Is Not Grounds For Breach, Daniel M. Isaacs

West Virginia Law Review

The law does not approve of the efficient breach of contract; it merely provides or fails to provide remedies. Although there are situations where the law implies contract terms, there is no basis for an implied covenant of efficiency. Hypothetical contracts, purporting to incorporate a release where the cost of performance to the promisor exceeds its value to the promisee, cannot be used to bind people to results, even efficient ones, to which they did not agree. Where it is inefficient to demand performance, flexibility should come from the promisee who, having received in trust the power to limit the …


A New Global Initiative On Contract Law In Uncitral: Right Project, Right Forum?, Keith Loken Sep 2013

A New Global Initiative On Contract Law In Uncitral: Right Project, Right Forum?, Keith Loken

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.