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How To Create A Commercial Calamity, Robert A. Hillman Jan 2007

How To Create A Commercial Calamity, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Article briefly catalogs the kinds of commercial calamities and then focuses on one of them, namely laws that are so imprecise and ambiguous that judges do not know how to apply them, and lawyers cannot explain them. The Article illustrates the problem with Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) section 2-209, dealing with contract modification and waiver. The paper does not focus on the ambiguities and obfuscations of section 2-209, but on the strategy of lawmaking that inevitably produces such a result. The drafters of section 2-209 ambitiously sought to reform the law, but then lost their nerve. In short, they …


Standards For Revising Article 2 Of The U.C.C.: The Nom Clause Model, Robert A. Hillman Jul 1994

Standards For Revising Article 2 Of The U.C.C.: The Nom Clause Model, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Article 29(2) Of The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods: A New Effort At Clarifying The Legal Effect Of "No Oral Modification" Clauses, Robert A. Hillman Jan 1988

Article 29(2) Of The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods: A New Effort At Clarifying The Legal Effect Of "No Oral Modification" Clauses, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.