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Articles 1 - 28 of 28
Full-Text Articles in Law
Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure For Resolving Valuation Disputes, Keith Sharfman
Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure For Resolving Valuation Disputes, Keith Sharfman
Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers
In this Article, Professor Sharfman addresses the problem of "discretionary valuation": that courts resolve valuation disputes arbitrarily and unpredictably, thus harming litigants and society. As a solution, he proposes the enactment of "valuation averaging," a new procedure for resolving valuation disputes modeled on the algorithmic valuation processes often agreed to by sophisticated private firms in advance of any dispute. He argues that by replacing the discretion of judges and juries with a mechanical valuation process, valuation averaging would cause litigants to introduce more plausible and conciliatory valuations into evidence and thereby reduce the cost of valuation litigation and increase the …
The Problems Of Pouring-Rights Contracts, David S. Almeling
The Problems Of Pouring-Rights Contracts, David S. Almeling
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Outsourcing Government Regulation, Sidney A. Shapiro
Outsourcing Government Regulation, Sidney A. Shapiro
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
“All Aboard!” An Overview Of The Continuing Debate Regarding The Enforceability Of Dispute Resolution Provisions Of Filipino Seamen Employment Contracts, Richard V. Blystone
“All Aboard!” An Overview Of The Continuing Debate Regarding The Enforceability Of Dispute Resolution Provisions Of Filipino Seamen Employment Contracts, Richard V. Blystone
ExpressO
No abstract provided.
Beyond Words: An Empirical Study Of Context In Contract Creation, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Beyond Words: An Empirical Study Of Context In Contract Creation, Deborah A. Schmedemann
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Specificity Of International Arbitration: The Case For Faa Reform, William W. Park
The Specificity Of International Arbitration: The Case For Faa Reform, William W. Park
Faculty Scholarship
If a pollster asked a random selection of Americans for a one-line verbal portrait of arbitration, common responses might include the following: (i) private litigation arising for construction and business disputes; (ii) a mechanism to resolve workplace tensions between management and labor; (iii) a process by which finance companies and stock brokers shield themselves from customer complaints; (iv) a way to level the playing field in deciding commercial controversies among companies from different parts of the world; (v) the way big corporations use NAFTA to escape regulation. To some extent all would be correct.'
Unfortunately, these different varieties of arbitration …
Measuring Recovery For Non-Contractual Investment, Omri Ben-Shahar, Robert A. Mikos
Measuring Recovery For Non-Contractual Investment, Omri Ben-Shahar, Robert A. Mikos
Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009
Parties who make investments that generate externalities may sometimes recover from the beneficiaries, even in the absence of contract. Previous scholarship has shown that granting recovery, based on either the cost of the investment or the benefit it confers, can provide optimal incentives to invest. However, this article demonstrates that the law often awards recovery that is neither purely cost-based, nor purely benefit-based, and instead equals either the greater-of or lesser-of the two measures. These hybrid approaches to recovery distort incentives to invest. The article demonstrates the prevalence of these practices, and explores informational and related reasons why they emerge. …
Arbitration And Contract: What Are The Law Schools Teaching?, Stephen K. Huber
Arbitration And Contract: What Are The Law Schools Teaching?, Stephen K. Huber
ExpressO
No abstract provided.
Bounded Rationality, The Doctrine Of Impracticability, And The Governance Of Relational Contracts, Donald J. Smythe
Bounded Rationality, The Doctrine Of Impracticability, And The Governance Of Relational Contracts, Donald J. Smythe
ExpressO
This article uses a behavioral economics approach to analyze the effects of the doctrine of impracticability on “relational” contracts -- long-term contractual agreements that are typically adapted to changed circumstances and unforeseen contingencies as they arise. In contrast to conventional law and economics studies, the article concludes that the impracticability doctrine has the potential to improve the efficiency and productivity of a wide range of long-term contractual agreements, and offers normative guidelines as to how the doctrine should be applied. The article also examines and rejects various philosophical objections to the impracticability doctrine, such as the arguments that it interferes …
Trademarks Under The North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) With References To The New Trademark Law Of Spain, Effective July 31, 2002, And The Current Mexican Law, Roberto Rosas
Faculty Articles
A trademark is any distinctive sign indicating that certain products or services have been manufactured or rendered by a specific person or company. This concept is currently recognized worldwide; however, the origin of trademarks dates back to antiquity when artisans placed their signatures or “marks” on their products containing an artistic or utilitarian element. Through time, these marks have evolved to such an extent that today, a reliable and efficient system for their registration and protection has been established. Besides protecting owners of trademarks, this system also helps consumers identify and purchase goods or services, which, because of the essence …
‘Paper World’ Analogies To Web Site Terms And Conditions: Travel Tickets And Other Similar Forms, Juliet M. Moringiello
‘Paper World’ Analogies To Web Site Terms And Conditions: Travel Tickets And Other Similar Forms, Juliet M. Moringiello
Juliet M. Moringiello
No abstract provided.
The Unique Jurisprudence Of Letters Of Credit: Its Origin And Sources, Gao Xiang, Ross P. Buckley
The Unique Jurisprudence Of Letters Of Credit: Its Origin And Sources, Gao Xiang, Ross P. Buckley
San Diego International Law Journal
This Article seeks to illumine the legal nature of the letter of credit instrument, and catalogue the various sources of law and rules that can govern it; and, by doing so, render a service to those who must quickly come to grips with letter of credit law. The Article is in two parts. The first part examines the legal nature of the letter of credit by looking at its definition, operation, and history and by comparing it with negotiable instruments and contracts. The second part considers the rules, customs, and regulations governing letters of credit and introduces the two fundamental …
Bowers V. Baystate Technologies: Using The Shrinkwrap License To Circumvent The Copyright Act And Escape Federal Preemption, Merritt A. Gardiner
Bowers V. Baystate Technologies: Using The Shrinkwrap License To Circumvent The Copyright Act And Escape Federal Preemption, Merritt A. Gardiner
University of Miami Business Law Review
No abstract provided.
Brief For Respondents, Green Tree Financial Corp. V. Bazzle, No. 02-634 (U.S. Mar. 27, 2003), ., Cornelia T. Pillard
Brief For Respondents, Green Tree Financial Corp. V. Bazzle, No. 02-634 (U.S. Mar. 27, 2003), ., Cornelia T. Pillard
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
Critical Interventions: Toward An Expansive Equality Approach To The Doctrine Of Good Faith In Contract Law, Emily Houh
Critical Interventions: Toward An Expansive Equality Approach To The Doctrine Of Good Faith In Contract Law, Emily Houh
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
This article argues that courts should use the doctrine of good faith in contract law to prohibit improper considerations of race in contract formation and performance, and should recognize good faith as a device for eliminating racial subordination that can function beyond the scope of conventional civil rights discourse. Although civil rights laws provide important remedies to victims of discrimination, the elimination of racial subordination cannot remain the exclusive domain of civil rights law. Rather, other substantive areas of law can and should incorporate expansive equality principles to achieve that end. For example, this article demonstrates how the implied obligation …
Reflexiones En Torno Al Contrato De Reporte, Freddy Escobar
Reflexiones En Torno Al Contrato De Reporte, Freddy Escobar
Freddy Escobar
No abstract provided.
The Functions Of Transaction Costs: Rethinking Transaction Cost Minimization In A World Of Friction, David M. Driesen, Shubha Ghosh
The Functions Of Transaction Costs: Rethinking Transaction Cost Minimization In A World Of Friction, David M. Driesen, Shubha Ghosh
College of Law - Faculty Scholarship
This article critically examines the goal of minimizing transaction costs, including the costs of legal decision-making. This goal permeates the law and economics literature and has profoundly influenced public policy. While most transaction cost scholarship has focused upon private law, this influence has been especially pervasive in public law, where it has contributed to a variety of legal changes aimed at reducing public transaction costs, often through privatization.
We argue that transaction costs perform useful functions. They frequently enable those engaging in transactions to obtain information needed to correct for information asymmetries or inadequate information. They facilitate efficient transactions, allow …
Idea Men Should Be Able To Enforce Their Contractual Rights: Considerations Rejecting Preemption Of Idea-Submission Contract Claims, Celine Michaud, Gregory Tulquois
Idea Men Should Be Able To Enforce Their Contractual Rights: Considerations Rejecting Preemption Of Idea-Submission Contract Claims, Celine Michaud, Gregory Tulquois
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
It is a long-standing and general rule that ideas are "free as the air" as Justice Brandeis eloquently stated in the dissent to the seminal case International News Service v. Associated Press.' This axiom of copyright law expresses the idea that copyright does not protect ideas but only protects the expression of ideas in a work. The distinction between unprotected ideas and protected expression is often referred to as the idea-expression dichotomy...
The principle of the idea-expression dichotomy was initially stated in Baker v. Selden, and later cases further articulated this principle, so that it has become one of the …
Accrued Financial Services, Inc. V. Prime Retail, Inc.: Resurrecting Barratry Imposes Detour On Road To Modernization Of Maryland Contracts Jurisprudence, Ross Q. Panko
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Corbin And Fuller's Cases On Contracts (1942?): The Casebook That Never Was, Scott D. Gerber
Corbin And Fuller's Cases On Contracts (1942?): The Casebook That Never Was, Scott D. Gerber
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Future Of Electronic Contracts In International Sales: Gaps And Natural Remedies Under The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, Jennifer E. Hill
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Legal Considerations For Sponsorship Contracts Of Olympic Athletes, Leigh Augustine-Schlossinger
Legal Considerations For Sponsorship Contracts Of Olympic Athletes, Leigh Augustine-Schlossinger
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Centuries Of Contract Common Law Can't Be All Wrong: Why The Uma's Exception To Mediation Confidentiality In Enforcement Proceedings Should Be Embraced And Broadened, Peter Robinson
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and House of Delegates of the American Bar Association recently approved the Uniform Mediation Act ("UMA") with an eye toward unifying the law of mediation confidentiality in the United States. Soon, numerous states and other organizations will consider modifying statutes, court rules, or professional standards to conform to the UMA. One of the important aspects of mediation confidentiality is how it applies when enforcing a mediated agreement.' In some jurisdictions, mediation confidentiality interferes with the application of contract law when enforcing a mediated agreement to produce absurd results. This article will …
Closing The Deal In Contracts: Introducing Transactional Skills In The First Year, David Snyder
Closing The Deal In Contracts: Introducing Transactional Skills In The First Year, David Snyder
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Closing The Deal In Contracts: Introducing Transactional Skills In The First Year, David V. Snyder
Closing The Deal In Contracts: Introducing Transactional Skills In The First Year, David V. Snyder
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Arbitration, Consent And Contractual Theory: The Implications Of Eeoc V.Waffle House, Jaime L. Dodge, Elizabeth Pollman
Arbitration, Consent And Contractual Theory: The Implications Of Eeoc V.Waffle House, Jaime L. Dodge, Elizabeth Pollman
All Faculty Scholarship
Consent has long been the foundation of arbitration, giving the process legitimacy and informing decisions about its nature and structure. The Supreme Court has consistently required consent as a precondition for compelling arbitration. However, it remains unclear what actions constitute consent. In First Options v. Kaplan,1 the Supreme Court held that courts should apply state contract law to determine whether an arbitral clause exists, but “added an important qualification” that “[c]ourts should not assume that the parties have agreed to arbitrate unless there is clear and unmistakable evidence that they did so.”2 In the wake of First Options, the courts …
Contractarian Economics And Mediation Ethics: The Case For Customizing Neutrality Through Contingent Fee Mediation, Scott R. Peppet
Contractarian Economics And Mediation Ethics: The Case For Customizing Neutrality Through Contingent Fee Mediation, Scott R. Peppet
Publications
No abstract provided.
Transactional Mediation: Using Mediators In Deals, Scott Peppet
Transactional Mediation: Using Mediators In Deals, Scott Peppet
Publications
This article addresses whether third-party mediators could be helpful in deal-making, just as they are in resolving disputes. It makes a theoretical case for such use of mediators and presents preliminary evidence that transactional mediation already is taking place.