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2020

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Class Of 2023 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law Oct 2020

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There Oughta Be A Law: What Corporate Social Responsibility Can Trach Us About Consumer Contract Formation, Colin P. Marks Jan 2020

There Oughta Be A Law: What Corporate Social Responsibility Can Trach Us About Consumer Contract Formation, Colin P. Marks

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The Restatement of Consumer Contracts has been a controversial project since its inception. Some have argued that the project is unnecessary as there is no separate law of consumer contracts. Others have argued that the project is more appropriate for a Principles of Law project than for a Restatement. Substantively, the project has also drawn criticism from both consumer and business advocates. Consumer advocates have argued that some of the sections, in particular section 2 which addresses standard terms, favor businesses and subject consumers to terms and conditions that they never truly assented to.9 Business advocates have argued, among other …


Public Rights After Oil States Energy, Adam J. Macleod Jan 2020

Public Rights After Oil States Energy, Adam J. Macleod

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The concept of public rights plays an important role in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States. But as the decision in Oil States last Term revealed, the Court has often used the term to refer to three different concepts with different jurisprudential implications. Using insights drawn from historical and analytical jurisprudence, this Article distinguishes the three concepts and examines how each of them is at work in patent law. A precise reading of Oil States also bears lessons for other areas of law that implicate both private rights and duties and the administration of public regulatory …