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Vertical Boilerplate, James Gibson
Vertical Boilerplate, James Gibson
James Gibson
Despite what we learn in law school about the “meeting of the minds,” most contracts are merely boilerplate -- take-it-or-leave-it propositions. Negotiation is nonexistent; we rely on our collective market power as consumers to regulate contracts’ content. But boilerplate imposes certain information costs, because it often arrives late in the transaction and is hard to understand. If those costs get too high, then the market mechanism fails. So how high are boilerplate’s information costs? A few studies have attempted to measure them, but they all use a “horizontal” approach -- i.e., they sample a single stratum of boilerplate and assume …
Atticus Finch Looks At Fifty, Michael L. Boyer
Atticus Finch Looks At Fifty, Michael L. Boyer
Michael L. Boyer
At the 50th anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird (the book and film), this piece explores the textual evidence related to Atticus Finch as a public interest lawyer as concerned with class and economic equality as racial justice. This interpretive strand has received less attention yet remains one of the most useful for post financial collapse legal professionals.