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Full-Text Articles in Law
Glen W. Rollins Et Al Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Melvin K. Westmoreland
Glen W. Rollins Et Al Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Melvin K. Westmoreland
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Solid V. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 133 Nev. Adv. Op. 17 (Apr. 27, 2017), Hunter Davidson
Solid V. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 133 Nev. Adv. Op. 17 (Apr. 27, 2017), Hunter Davidson
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The Court interpreted Nevada Supreme Court Rules (“SCR” or the “Rules”) on Electronic Coverage of Court Proceedings: (1) My Entertainment TV (MET) is a “news reporter” under SCR 229(1)(c) because it collects, edits, and publishes footage concerning local events for public dissemination; (2) Clark County court proceedings footage has the educational or informational purpose required by SCR 241; (3) camera presence in the court room alone does not overcome the presumption permitting electronic recording of court proceedings under SCR 230; and (4) contract provisions must be read together, and the result should comport with the SCR on electronic coverage of …
Strategic Jubiliee Holdings, Llc Et Al Order On Defendants' Motion To Strike, Elizabeth E. Long
Strategic Jubiliee Holdings, Llc Et Al Order On Defendants' Motion To Strike, Elizabeth E. Long
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court’S Application Of 'Ordinary Contract Principles' To The Issue Of The Duration Of Retiree Healthcare Benefits: Perpetuating The Interpretation/Gap-Filling Quagmire, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The United States Supreme Court purported to apply "ordinary contract principles" in its decision reversing the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in M&G Polymers USA v. Tackett . The Sixth Circuit had held that plaintiffs, retired employees of M&G, were entitled to lifetime healthcare benefits under their union's agreement with M&G. According to the Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit wrongly relied on a false set of "inferences" established in International Union v. Yard-Man, Inc. to find that "in the absence of extrinsic evidence to the contrary, the provisions of [the collective bargaining agreement] indicated an intent to vest …
Arrested Development: Rethinking The Contract Age Of Majority For The Twenty-First Century Adolescent, Wayne Barnes
Arrested Development: Rethinking The Contract Age Of Majority For The Twenty-First Century Adolescent, Wayne Barnes
Faculty Scholarship
The contract age of majority is currently age 18. Contracts entered into by minors under this age are generally voidable at the minor’s option. This contract doctrine of capacity is based on the policy of protecting minors from their own poor financial decisions and lack of adultlike judgment. Conversely, the age of 18 is currently set as the arbitrary age at which one will be bound to her contract, since this is the current benchmark for becoming an “adult.” However, this article questions the accuracy of age 18 for this benchmark. Until comparatively recently, the age of contract majority had …
Licensing Contracts: Control Rights, Options And Timing, Pascale Crama, Bert De Reyck, Niyazi Taneri
Licensing Contracts: Control Rights, Options And Timing, Pascale Crama, Bert De Reyck, Niyazi Taneri
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Research and development (R&D) collaborations, common in high-tech industries, are challenging to manage due to technical and market risks as well as incentive problems. We investigate how control rights, options, payment terms and timing allow the innovator to capture maximum value from its R&D collaborations with a marketer. Our study reveals a counterintuitive result; the innovator may, under certain conditions, prefer to grant launch control rights or buy-out options to the marketer despite the fact that both terms restrict its downstream actions. We demonstrate that a menu of contracts is not necessary to address the adverse selection problem as the …
Gerber Products Co. Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Compel Discovery, Alice D. Bonner
Gerber Products Co. Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Compel Discovery, Alice D. Bonner
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Gross Endowment Trust, Llc Et Al., Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Alice D. Bonner
Gross Endowment Trust, Llc Et Al., Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Alice D. Bonner
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Mechanisms For Consultation And Free, Prior And Informed Consent In The Negotiation Of Investment Contracts, Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Y. Cordes
Mechanisms For Consultation And Free, Prior And Informed Consent In The Negotiation Of Investment Contracts, Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Y. Cordes
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Investor-state contracts are regularly used in low-and middle-income countries to grant concessions for land-based investments, such as agricultural or forestry projects. These contracts are rarely negotiated in the presence of, or with meaningful input from, the people who risk being adversely affected by the project. This has serious implications for requirements for meaningful consultation, and, where applicable, free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), and is particularly important in situations in which investor-state contracts grant the investor rights to lands or resources over which the community has legitimate claims.
The paper explores how consultation and FPIC processes can be integrated into …
Articulating A Rights-Based Argument For Land Contract Disclosure, Jesse Coleman, Kaitlin Y. Cordes
Articulating A Rights-Based Argument For Land Contract Disclosure, Jesse Coleman, Kaitlin Y. Cordes
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
In March 2017, CCSI presented a working paper titled "Articulating a Rights-Basted Argument for Land Contract Disclosure" at the World Bank Land & Poverty Conference. The paper explores whether and how existing state obligations under human rights law require disclosure of land contracts and more transparent contracting processes around land investments. It focuses on the extent to which guidelines for responsible land-based investment, which encourage greater transparency, reflect existing host and home state obligations. Based on a review of relevant human rights law and authoritative interpretations thereof, the paper articulates rights-based arguments for land contract disclosure, based in particular on …
Robert L. Nix Order On Motion For Attorney's Fees, John J. Goger
Robert L. Nix Order On Motion For Attorney's Fees, John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Ainealem "Alex" Gidewon And Ag Entertainment, Inc. Order On Defendants' Second Motion For Summary Judgment, John J. Goger
Ainealem "Alex" Gidewon And Ag Entertainment, Inc. Order On Defendants' Second Motion For Summary Judgment, John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Rise Of The Digital Regulator, Rory Van Loo
Rise Of The Digital Regulator, Rory Van Loo
Faculty Scholarship
The administrative state is leveraging algorithms to influence individuals’ private decisions. Agencies have begun to write rules to shape for-profit websites such as Expedia and have launched their own online tools such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s mortgage calculator. These digital intermediaries aim to guide people toward better schools, healthier food, and more savings. But enthusiasm for this regulatory paradigm rests on two questionable assumptions. First, digital intermediaries effectively police consumer markets. Second, they require minimal government involvement. Instead, some for-profit online advisers such as travel websites have become what many mortgage brokers were before the 2008 financial crisis. …
Convergence Between Australian Common Law And English Common Law: The Rule Against Penalties In The Age Of Freedom Of Contract, Man Yip, Yihan Goh
Convergence Between Australian Common Law And English Common Law: The Rule Against Penalties In The Age Of Freedom Of Contract, Man Yip, Yihan Goh
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
This note discusses the High Court of Australia decision of Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Bank Group Limited on the rule against penalty clauses and situates its importance in light of the UK Supreme Court decision of Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi and Beavis v ParkingEye Ltd.
It compares the analytical frameworks laid down in the two cases and
points out some unresolved issues in this area of law even following
these cases.
Drummond Financial Services Llc Et Al., Order On Discovery Disputes, John J. Goger
Drummond Financial Services Llc Et Al., Order On Discovery Disputes, John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Morris Hardwick Schneider Llc Et Al Order On Plaintiffs' Motion To Dismiss Defendant Hardwick's Counterclaims And Motions For Protective Order And Stay, Melvin K. Westmoreland
Morris Hardwick Schneider Llc Et Al Order On Plaintiffs' Motion To Dismiss Defendant Hardwick's Counterclaims And Motions For Protective Order And Stay, Melvin K. Westmoreland
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Pulte Home Corporation Order On Defendant' Choate Construction Company's Motion For Partial Summary Judgment, John J. Goger
Pulte Home Corporation Order On Defendant' Choate Construction Company's Motion For Partial Summary Judgment, John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Drummond Financial Services Llc Order On Defendants' Motion For Partial Stay, John J. Goger
Drummond Financial Services Llc Order On Defendants' Motion For Partial Stay, John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Gross Endowment Trust Llc, Roy Dickson Order On Plaintiffs' Motion To Compel Second Deposition Of Non-Party Fortress Investment Group, Llc, Alice D. Bonner
Gross Endowment Trust Llc, Roy Dickson Order On Plaintiffs' Motion To Compel Second Deposition Of Non-Party Fortress Investment Group, Llc, Alice D. Bonner
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Samaca, Llc, Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss Complaint And Compel Arbitration, Alice D. Bonner
Samaca, Llc, Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss Complaint And Compel Arbitration, Alice D. Bonner
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
The Deformation Of Contract In The Information Society, Margaret Jane Radin
The Deformation Of Contract In The Information Society, Margaret Jane Radin
Law & Economics Working Papers
The HLA Hart Memorial Lecture delivered at Oxford on May 24, 2016. The Lecture considers how the advent and growth of the information society is posing challenges for the traditional theories of contract, and for the duties of the State with regard to contractual ordering. In particular, the Lecture considers the lack of ‘fit’ between certain prevalent uses of contract and the underlying justification for contract enforcement.
Contract Exposition And Formalism, Gregory Klass
Contract Exposition And Formalism, Gregory Klass
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Formalism in contract law has had many defenders and many critics. What courts need, however, is an account of when formalist approaches work and when they do not. This article addresses that need by developing a general theory of the rules of contract interpretation and construction—contract “exposition.” The theory distinguishes inter alia two forms of formalism. Formalities effect legal change by virtue of their form alone, and thereby obviate interpretation. Examples from contract law include “as is”, the seal and boilerplate terms. Formalities work when parties intend their legal effects, that is, when they perform juristic acts. Plain meaning rules, …
Bsl Holdings, Llc Et Al., Order On Third Party Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long
Bsl Holdings, Llc Et Al., Order On Third Party Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Guide To Land Contracts: Forestry Projects, International Senior Lawyers Project, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Sam Szoke-Burke
Guide To Land Contracts: Forestry Projects, International Senior Lawyers Project, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Sam Szoke-Burke
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Agricultural investment contracts and forestry projects can be complex, with complicated provisions that are difficult to understand. To assist non-lawyers in better understanding agricultural investment contracts, such as those available on the Open Land Contracts repository, CCSI has developed a Guide to Land Contracts: Forestry Projects.
This Guide, prepared by International Senior Lawyers Project staff and volunteers in collaboration with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, aims to assist the Open Land Contracts repository users in unpacking the technical provisions and language typically found in forestry contracts in order to better understand the contracts and the potential implications of …
Tension And Reconciliation In Canadian Contract Law Casebooks, David Sandomierski
Tension And Reconciliation In Canadian Contract Law Casebooks, David Sandomierski
Law Publications
Canadian common law contract law casebooks are beset with a tension. On the one hand, they all reveal a sustained commitment to the “wholesale assault on the jurisprudence of forms, concepts, and rules” that typifies American Legal Realism and its intellectual descendants. Concern with underlying values, functional reasoning, social realities, and policy thinking pervades the explicit messages of Canadian contract law casebooks and their editors’ related writings. On the other hand, the two casebooks most frequently assigned embody an allegiance to rules and courts that has a close kinship with the classical attitudes purportedly rejected. They convey a monolithic image …
If You've Seen One, You Have Not Seen Them All, David Spratt
If You've Seen One, You Have Not Seen Them All, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Consumer Internet Standard Form Contracts In India: A Proposal, Robert A. Hillman
Consumer Internet Standard Form Contracts In India: A Proposal, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
India's burgeoning Internet commerce sector has made consumers susceptible to standard-form contracts. Due to the slim likelihood of consumers reading the terms, vendors may often draft heavy-handed terms in the contracts, thereby adversely impacting consumer interests. The Indian legal framework in this regard is inadequate. This article evaluates the existing suggestions on standard-form contracts and argues that none of them safeguard consumer interests sufficiently. Instead, based on the American Law Institutes' Principles of the Law of Software Contracts, the article proposes a disclosure approach that would benefit the interests of Indian consumers engaged in commerce on the Internet.
What We Buy When We "Buy Now", Aaron K. Perzanowski, Chris Jay Hoofnagle
What We Buy When We "Buy Now", Aaron K. Perzanowski, Chris Jay Hoofnagle
Faculty Publications
Retailers such as Apple and Amazon market digital media to consumers using the familiar language of product ownership, including phrases like “buy now,” “own,” and “purchase.” Consumers may understandably associate such language with strong personal property rights. But the license agreements and terms of use associated with these transactions tell a different story. They explain that ebooks, mp3 albums, digital movies, games, and software are not sold, but merely licensed. The terms limit consumers' ability to resell, lend, transfer, and even retain possession of the digital media they acquire. Moreover, unlike physical media products, access to digital media is contingent …
Why Flexibility Matters: Inequality And Contract Pluralism, Jeremiah A. Ho
Why Flexibility Matters: Inequality And Contract Pluralism, Jeremiah A. Ho
Faculty Publications
In the decade since the Great Recession, various contract scholars have observed that one reason the financial crisis was so “great” was due in part to contract law—or, more precisely, the failures of contract law for not curbing the risky lending practices in the American housing market. However, there is another reason why contracts made that recession so great: contracts furthered inequality. In recent years, when economic inequality has become a dominant national conversation topic, we can see development of that inequality in the Great Recession. And indeed, contract law was complicit. While contractual flexibility and innovation were available to …
Venture Capital Contract Design: An Empirical Analysis Of The Connection Between Bargaining Power And Venture Financing Contract Terms, Spencer Williams
Venture Capital Contract Design: An Empirical Analysis Of The Connection Between Bargaining Power And Venture Financing Contract Terms, Spencer Williams
Publications
This Article presents an empirical analysis of the connection between bargaining power and contract design using an original dataset of over 5,500 equity and debt venture financings from 2004–2015. Using the total supply of venture capital in the U.S. as a measure of relative bargaining power between entrepreneurs and investors, this Article finds that venture capital supply has a statistically significant relationship with price and non-price terms in both equity and debt financings. These results contradict one of three theoretical accounts of bargaining power and support the other two.