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Articles 1 - 22 of 22
Full-Text Articles in Law
Binding Future Selves, Kaiponanea T. Matsumura
Binding Future Selves, Kaiponanea T. Matsumura
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Inherit The Cloud: The Role Of Private Contracts In Distributing Or Deleting Digital Assets At Death, Natalie M. Banta
Inherit The Cloud: The Role Of Private Contracts In Distributing Or Deleting Digital Assets At Death, Natalie M. Banta
Fordham Law Review
We live in a world permeated with technology. Through our online accounts we write emails, we store pictures, videos, and documents, we pay bills and conduct financial transactions, we buy digital books and music, and we manage loyalty programs. Digital assets have quickly replaced physical letters, pictures, books, compact discs, and documents stored in filing cabinets and shoeboxes. The emergence of digital assets raises pressing questions regarding the treatment of digital assets at an account holder’s death. Unlike digital assets’ physical counterparts, an account holder does not control the ultimate fate of digital assets. Instead, digital assets are controlled by …
Not Just For Products Liability: Applying The Economic Loss Rule Beyond Its Origins, Danielle Sawaya
Not Just For Products Liability: Applying The Economic Loss Rule Beyond Its Origins, Danielle Sawaya
Fordham Law Review
Most litigants, if given the chance, prefer to assert tort theories to recover their economic losses, rather than rely on the remedies provided under contract law. This is primarily because plaintiffs have the potential to recover more damages under tort law than contract law. However, most courts have adopted a doctrine known as the economic loss rule to bar plaintiffs from asserting certain tort theories to recover for their economic loss. Although the economic loss rule may seem like an easy way to maintain the boundary between tort law and contract law, confusion abounds when courts attempt to determine the …
Contract Law And The Hand Formula, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Contract Law And The Hand Formula, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Contractualizing Custody, Sarah Abramowicz
Contractualizing Custody, Sarah Abramowicz
Fordham Law Review
Many scholars otherwise in favor of the enforcement of family contracts agree that parent-child relationships should continue to prove the exception to any contractualized family law regime. This Article instead questions the continued refusal to enforce contracts concerning parental rights to children’s custody. It argues that the refusal to enforce such contracts contributes to a differential treatment of two types of families: those deemed “intact”—typically consisting of two married parents and their offspring—and those deemed non-intact. Intact families are granted a degree of freedom from government intervention, provided that there is no evidence that children are in any danger of …
Day's Pyramid Ignores Sturdy Severability Foundation, Builds Off Granite Rock: Day V. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, Inc., Wesley K . Dagestad
Day's Pyramid Ignores Sturdy Severability Foundation, Builds Off Granite Rock: Day V. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, Inc., Wesley K . Dagestad
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Persons involved in a pyramid scheme are often blind to the overarching pyramid's purpose; similarly, contracting parties may possess little initial knowledge of an agreement's terms in their entirety. Arbitration agreements and other contractual obligations can be hidden in the depths of multiple documents, memorialized through simultaneous agreements incorporating the additional terms by various references. After Day, courts may now be required to dig through countless terms to parties' agreements to determine if a valid contract exists, and if so, which agreement governs the dispute at issue. After sifting through this contractual jungle, courts will be forced to take one …
The Common Law Foundations Of The Takings Clause: The Disconnect Between Public And Private Law, Richard A. Epstein
The Common Law Foundations Of The Takings Clause: The Disconnect Between Public And Private Law, Richard A. Epstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Strategic Retreat: A Proposed Response To Evasive Energy Company Tactics Following The Shale Boom-And-Bust, Samuel S. Crichton
Strategic Retreat: A Proposed Response To Evasive Energy Company Tactics Following The Shale Boom-And-Bust, Samuel S. Crichton
LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources
No abstract provided.
The Contractual Prohibition Of Assignment In Austrian Law, Fritz Raber
The Contractual Prohibition Of Assignment In Austrian Law, Fritz Raber
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ex Tempore Contracting, Andrew Verstein
Ex Tempore Contracting, Andrew Verstein
William & Mary Law Review
This Article argues that a cornerstone assumption of contemporary contracts scholarship is misleading and limited. Leading academic commentary explicitly assumes that contractual responsibilities are determined in the following way: parties determine many of their duties ex ante, by specifying terms at the time of contract formation, and leave the rest of the terms vague, for a court to specify ex post if any should prove important. This ex ante / ex post dichotomy is the guiding framework in attempts to understand contract design and interpretation. For example, parties use terms like “merchantable” quality when the cost of being more specific …
Disclaimers Of Contractual Liability And Voluntary Obligations, Michael G. Pratt
Disclaimers Of Contractual Liability And Voluntary Obligations, Michael G. Pratt
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Contractual obligations are traditionally regarded as voluntary. A voluntary obligation is one that can be acquired only if one intends to acquire it. This traditional understanding finds doctrinal expression in the requirement that contracting parties intend to create legal relations. It has, however, been doubted that the Anglo-Canadian law of contract insists on this requirement. Skeptics argue that cases ostensibly decided on the basis of such a requirement are better explained otherwise. In this paper I invoke the legal force of contractual disclaimers to show that contractual obligations are indeed voluntary. When parties to an agreement purport to exclude it …
Mistake In Assumptions, Stephen Waddams
Mistake In Assumptions, Stephen Waddams
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Mistake raises several important and difficult questions for contract law. The question addressed here is, when is it an excuse from contractual obligation that a contract has been made under the influence of a mistake of fact? Posed in this form, the question invites attention to aspects of contract law not usually considered in relation to each other, particularly misrepresentation, frustration, and more generally, unjust enrichment, all areas in which Professor McCamus has written extensively. This article brings these areas together with the object of throwing useful light on each of them, both from the point of view of understanding …
Consideration Which Happens To Fail, Andrew Kull
Consideration Which Happens To Fail, Andrew Kull
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Recent English commentary employs the timeworn expression “failure of consideration” in an unprecedented way. It can now designate an expansive residual category of grounds for restitution: at its fullest, “the failure to sustain itself of the state of affairs contemplated as a basis” for a transaction by which one party is enriched at the expense of another. Because the result is plainly to incorporate a civilian-style “absence of basis” test within commonlaw unjust enrichment, the new “failure of consideration” carries an incidental implication for Canadian restitution law: if Garland v Consumers’ Gas really announced a shift from commonlaw “unjust factors” …
In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perceptive, Yehezkel Margalit
In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perceptive, Yehezkel Margalit
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
The American public’s attention was first exposed to the practice of surrogacy in 1988 with the drama and verdict of the Baby M case. Over the last twenty-five years, the practice of surrogacy has slowly become increasingly socially accepted, and even welcomed. This evolution serves to emphasize the bizarre judicial and legislative silence regarding surrogacy that exists today in the vast majority of U.S. jurisdictions. In this Article, I describe and trace the dramatic revolution that took place during the recent decades, as the surrogacy practice has drastically changed from one viewed as problematic and rejected to a socially widespread …
Teaching Contracts, Marvin Chirelstein
Teaching Contracts, Marvin Chirelstein
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
In Quest Of The Arbitration Trifecta, Or Closed Door Litigation?: The Delaware Arbitration Program , Thomas J. Stipanowich
In Quest Of The Arbitration Trifecta, Or Closed Door Litigation?: The Delaware Arbitration Program , Thomas J. Stipanowich
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
The Delaware Arbitration Program established a procedure by which businesses can agree to have their disputes heard in an arbitration proceeding before a sitting judge of the state’s highly regarded Chancery Court. The Program arguably offers a veritable trifecta of procedural advantages for commercial parties, including expert adjudication, efficient case management and short cycle time and, above all, a proceeding cloaked in secrecy. It also may enhance the reputation of Delaware as the forum of choice for businesses. But the Program’s ambitious intermingling of public and private forums brings into play the longstanding tug-of-war between the traditional view of court …
The Disappearance Of A Dinosaur: Reassignment Clauses Are Losing Their Footing In College Coaches' Contracts, Martin J. Greenberg, Brandon Leibsohn
The Disappearance Of A Dinosaur: Reassignment Clauses Are Losing Their Footing In College Coaches' Contracts, Martin J. Greenberg, Brandon Leibsohn
Marquette Sports Law Review
No abstract provided.
Electronic Mass Procurement By Means Of "Web Technology": Basic Options In Its Regulation, Barral Vinals
Electronic Mass Procurement By Means Of "Web Technology": Basic Options In Its Regulation, Barral Vinals
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Today, the acquisition of goods and services through the Internet is frequent, just like the use of the most varied information services on the net.
The Contracting/Producing Ambiguity And The Collapse Of The Means/Ends Distinction In Employment, Julia Tomassetti
The Contracting/Producing Ambiguity And The Collapse Of The Means/Ends Distinction In Employment, Julia Tomassetti
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Uncertainty And Aberrant Contracts: The Choice Of Law Clause, William J. Woodward Jr.
Legal Uncertainty And Aberrant Contracts: The Choice Of Law Clause, William J. Woodward Jr.
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Legal uncertainty about the applicability of local consumer protection can destroy a consumer’s claim or defense within the consumer arbitration environment. What is worse, because the consumer arbitration system cannot accommodate either legal complexity or legal uncertainty, the tendency will be to resolve cases in the way the consumer’s form contract dictates, that is, in favor of the drafter. To demonstrate this effect and advocate statutory change, this article focuses on fee-shifting statutes in California and several other states. These statutes convert very common one-way fee-shifting terms (consumer pays business’s attorneys fees if business wins but not the other way …
Situational Duress And The Aberrance Of Electronic Contracts, Nancy S. Kim
Situational Duress And The Aberrance Of Electronic Contracts, Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This article explains how the aberrant nature of electronic contracts has unique implications, which contract law should recognize. Companies, taking advantage of these unique implications, may use electronic contracts in an unfair and coercive manner, which is why this article proposes expanding the definition of duress to include “situational duress.” Situational duress would not encompass all electronic contracting scenarios, but would be limited to situations where (1) a drafting company uses an electronic contract to block consumer access to a product or service; (2) the consumer has a “vested interest” in that product or service; and (3) the consumer accepts …
Legal Osmosis: The Role Of Brain Science In Protecting Adolescents, Cheryl B. Preston, Brandon T. Crowther
Legal Osmosis: The Role Of Brain Science In Protecting Adolescents, Cheryl B. Preston, Brandon T. Crowther
Hofstra Law Review
In the last decade, the Supreme Court relied on scientific findings presented in amicus curiae briefs filed by various medical and psychological organizations and health professionals in three juvenile justice cases, Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, and Miller v. Alabama. Theresearch showed that the structure and function of adolescent brains are distinct from those of adults, which supports the position that adolescents, as a class, are generally immature in three separate, but related, ways. First, adolescents are more likely to engage in risky behavior than adults; second, adolescents are less able to control their impulses than adults; and finally, …