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Statutory Personal Property Lease Law In Alabama, Peter A. Alces, P. Cade Newman Oct 1990

Statutory Personal Property Lease Law In Alabama, Peter A. Alces, P. Cade Newman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Contract Versus Contractarianism: The Regulatory Role Of Contract Law, Jean Braucher Sep 1990

Contract Versus Contractarianism: The Regulatory Role Of Contract Law, Jean Braucher

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Frontispiece On Good Faith: A Functional Approach Within The Ucc, Christina L. Kunz Jan 1990

Frontispiece On Good Faith: A Functional Approach Within The Ucc, Christina L. Kunz

Faculty Scholarship

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 …


Exemptions Of Contract Liability Under The 1980 United Nations Convention, Wanki Lee Jan 1990

Exemptions Of Contract Liability Under The 1980 United Nations Convention, Wanki Lee

Penn State International Law Review

This article will primarily discuss the United Nations Sales Convention. In interpreting the Convention, the central problem is to what extent Article 79 of the Convention will apply to the various cases. Does it apply only to cases of "force majeure" or "impossibility," i.e., cases in which there is a barrier that prevents performance or makes it impracticable? Or does it apply to cases of "frustration" or "imprévision," i.e., cases in which there is no barrier but the circumstances are radically changed because of a contingency contrary to the basic assumption on which the contract was made? Even if Article …


Consequential Damages In Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods And The Legacy Of Hadley, Arthur Murphey Jan 1990

Consequential Damages In Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods And The Legacy Of Hadley, Arthur Murphey

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Pitfalls Of Public Policy: The Case Of Arbitration Agreements, Jeffrey W. Stempel Jan 1990

Pitfalls Of Public Policy: The Case Of Arbitration Agreements, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

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 …


Conflict Of Laws Resolution In Employment Contracts: The West Virginia Approach, Linda M. Gutsell Jan 1990

Conflict Of Laws Resolution In Employment Contracts: The West Virginia Approach, Linda M. Gutsell

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Option Contract: Irrevocable Not Irrejectable, Michael J. Cozzillio Dec 1989

The Option Contract: Irrevocable Not Irrejectable, Michael J. Cozzillio

Michael J. Cozzillio

This Article briefly examines the traditional contract principles governing offer and acceptance, particularly the various means to terminate an offer. It also explores the special circumstances governing option contracts and similar mechanisms utilized to transform a revocable offer into an irrevocable one. Further, this Article reviews Restatement (Second) Section 37 and case law that addresses the question of whether a rejection should terminate an irrevocable offer. It explains why the view articulated by section 37 and its decisional predicates are untenable. Finally, this Article presents an alternative to section 37 that reflects logical compliance with established contract formation principles, while …