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Contracts-Breach Distinguished From Rescission Nov 2001

Contracts-Breach Distinguished From Rescission

Indiana Law Journal

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Preventing The Birth Of Drug-Addicted Babies Through Contract: An Examination Of The C.R.A.C.K. Organization, Juli Horka-Ruiz Feb 2001

Preventing The Birth Of Drug-Addicted Babies Through Contract: An Examination Of The C.R.A.C.K. Organization, Juli Horka-Ruiz

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Contracting On The Web: Collegiate Athletes And Sports Agents Confront A New Hurdle In Closing The Deal, Manpreet S. Dhanjal Jan 2001

Contracting On The Web: Collegiate Athletes And Sports Agents Confront A New Hurdle In Closing The Deal, Manpreet S. Dhanjal

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Just Say The "Magic Words": Advocating An Arbitration Clause Should Be Held To An Express Waiver Standard For The Doctrine Of Indian Sovereign Immunity--C&L Enterprises V. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe, Jeremy Clinefelter Jan 2001

Just Say The "Magic Words": Advocating An Arbitration Clause Should Be Held To An Express Waiver Standard For The Doctrine Of Indian Sovereign Immunity--C&L Enterprises V. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe, Jeremy Clinefelter

American Indian Law Review

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Finding Fault With Wonnell's "Two Contractual Wrongs", George M. Cohen Jan 2001

Finding Fault With Wonnell's "Two Contractual Wrongs", George M. Cohen

San Diego Law Review

Professor Christopher Wonnell's excellent paper, Expectation, Reliance, and the Two Contractual Wrongs,' makes two basic points,

both of which I find convincing, but neither of which contract scholars generally appreciate and accept. The first point, largely descriptive and so less controversial, is that the concepts of expectation and reliance are not simply two different ways of conceiving compensation; rather, they are two different ways of conceiving contractual wrongs from both a moral and an economic perspective.2 From a moral perspective, expectation damages remedy the wrong of breaching a contractual promise that should have been performed. Reliance damages remedy the wrong …


Remedies For Imperfect Transactions In Contracts And Torts, David W. Barnes Jan 2001

Remedies For Imperfect Transactions In Contracts And Torts, David W. Barnes

San Diego Law Review

The papers by Professors DeLong, Wonnell, and Kelly in this Symposium address different types of imperfect transactions. Promises that are the subject of section 90 of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts are imperfect in the sense that they lack consideration or are disclaimed in subsequent, formalized, written contracts.' Section 90 authorizes courts to find remedies for reasonable but fruitless expenditures induced by parties who make promises on which they should reasonably expect others to rely.2 Professor DeLong decries courts' formalist strategies for enforcing disclaimers that eliminate these promisors' potential liability for intentionally imperfect transactions.' Taking Professor DeLong's analysis of imperfect …