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Full-Text Articles in Contracts
Labor And Employment Law, W. David Paxton, Gregory R. Hunt
Labor And Employment Law, W. David Paxton, Gregory R. Hunt
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
"It Is Much Easier To Find Fault With Others, Than To Be Faultless Ourselves": Contributory Negligence As A Bar To A Claim For Breach Of The Implied Warranty Of Merchantability, William B. L. Little
"It Is Much Easier To Find Fault With Others, Than To Be Faultless Ourselves": Contributory Negligence As A Bar To A Claim For Breach Of The Implied Warranty Of Merchantability, William B. L. Little
Campbell Law Review
To better understand the policy underpinnings of the statutory bar of certain implied warranty merchantability claims, this Article first reviews the origins and the continued vibrancy of the doctrine of contributory negligence in North Carolina. The doctrine is then examined in the context of North Carolina's enactment of the Products Liability Act and the doctrine's applicability to the implied warranty of merchantability.
A Primer On Electronic Contracting And Transactions In North Carolina, Richard A. Lord
A Primer On Electronic Contracting And Transactions In North Carolina, Richard A. Lord
Campbell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Private Ordering In A Globalizing World: Still Searching For The Basics Of Contract, Peer Zumbansen
Introduction: Private Ordering In A Globalizing World: Still Searching For The Basics Of Contract, Peer Zumbansen
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Governing Contracts - Public and Private Perspectives, Symposium. Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, November 9-10, 2006
Civil Society Constitutionalism: The Power Of Contract Law, Marc Amstutz, Adreas Abegg, Vaios Karavas
Civil Society Constitutionalism: The Power Of Contract Law, Marc Amstutz, Adreas Abegg, Vaios Karavas
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article argues that the vision of a social law of contract is exhibited in the judgment of the Swiss Federal Court in Post v. Verein gegen Tierfabriken ("VgT"). The judgment is one of a law of contract that interacts with a community of the subjects instead of the individual subjects of a community. This paper contends that law today has the task of providing for the areas of social autonomy from which "civil society" is built up and in which, at the same time, the increasing social fragmentation can be overcome piecemeal. The article argues that conceiving contract law …
The Law Of Society: Governance Through Contract, Peter Zumbansen
The Law Of Society: Governance Through Contract, Peter Zumbansen
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper focuses on contract law as a central field in contemporary regulatory practice. In recent years, "governance by contract" has emerged as the central concept in the context of privatization, domestic and transnational commercial relations, and law-and-development projects. Meanwhile, as a result of the neo-formalist attack on contract law, "governance of contract" through contract adjudication, consumer protection law, and judicial intervention into private law relations has come under severe pressure. Building on early historical critique of the formalist foundations of an allegedly private law of the market, the paper assesses the current justifications for contractual governance and posits that …
The New Public Contracting: Public Versus Private Ordering?, Peter Vincent-Jones
The New Public Contracting: Public Versus Private Ordering?, Peter Vincent-Jones
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the hybrid character of contemporary public service organization with specific reference to the emergence in Britain over the last twenty-five years of a novel mode of governance, the "New Public Contracting." The New Public Contracting governs an ever-expanding range of aspects of modern life through contracting regimes directed at the attainment of particular policy purposes. In Britain, this mode of governance has been problematic in that many contracting regimes have failed to respond adequately to public needs. While the trend toward privatization may be politically irreversible, the role of the state should be to help establish the …
Relational Contract And The Nature Of Private Ordering: A Comment On Vincent-Jones, David Campbell
Relational Contract And The Nature Of Private Ordering: A Comment On Vincent-Jones, David Campbell
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper focuses on the enormous growth of contract in the public sector over the last twenty years as part of the development of the "new public management." In the United Kingdom, the most penetrating assessment of the significance of this growth for the law of contract, its theory and its use, is Peter Vincent-Jones's The New Public Contracting, the thrust of which has been the basis of Vincent-Jones's contribution to this issue, The New Public Contracting: Public versus Private Ordering? In this paper, the author examines the welfarism of public sector contracting by means of a comment on Vincent-Jones's …
An Administrative Law Perspective On Government Social Service Contracts: Outsourcing Prison Health Care In New York City, Alfred C. Aman
An Administrative Law Perspective On Government Social Service Contracts: Outsourcing Prison Health Care In New York City, Alfred C. Aman
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper explores how administrative law can mitigate the democracy deficit that may occur when privatization shifts political debate into relatively private arenas, changes its focus, or precludes debate altogether.I t also argues that the prevailing form and key terms of globalization in the United States derive from neo-liberalism, particularly in the binary division of public/private and their conflation with legal regulation and market responsiveness, respectively. This paper centers specifically on a case study involving the outsourcing of health care for prisoners by a private, for-profit health care provider, Prison Health Services, using it as a means for exploring how …
The Role Of Contracts And Networks In Public Governance: The Importance Of The "Social Epistemology" Of Decision Making, Karl-Heinz Ladeur
The Role Of Contracts And Networks In Public Governance: The Importance Of The "Social Epistemology" Of Decision Making, Karl-Heinz Ladeur
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article addresses the role of public contracts and of public-private networks in relation to the new cognitive infrastructure of postmodern societies and the rise of an experimental rationality. The use of contracts in public law has evolved: it is no longer just a new version of the administrative decision; it is now used as a means in a broad process of breaking up the permeability of public administration. New modes of contracting are a response to increasing fragmentation of interests in industry and in society as a whole. This evolution has also given rise to the concept of the …
Molecular Federalism And The Structures Of Private Lawmaking, David V, Snyder
Molecular Federalism And The Structures Of Private Lawmaking, David V, Snyder
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores "molecular federalism." Private lawmakers-ranging from familiar organizations like the American Law Institute and the New York Stock Exchange to less well known ones, like the International Chamber of Commerce and associations of banks-are here envisioned as part of a federalist scheme that operates at a "molecular" level rather than at the level of the state. The function and legitimacy of private lawmakers, and the strengths and weaknesses of private lawmaking, are assessed under the rubric of federalism. The article takes up both horizontal and vertical aspects of molecular federalism, considering the possibilities of competitive private lawmaking and …
The Making Of Transnational Contract Law, Graf-Peter Calliess
The Making Of Transnational Contract Law, Graf-Peter Calliess
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The definition and creation of contract law is entrenched in a common understanding of the strong role of the modern state in the administration of justice. This article argues that this understanding is currently subject to a fundamental transformation as a result of the increasing demand for legal certainty in cross-border transactions. Traditional concepts of private international law, mainly the law of conflicts and multilateral treaty harmonization, have proven unable to keep pace with globalization, allowing private actors to step in and gain a dominant position in providing legal services to international commerce. The resulting privatization of lawmaking leads to …
Consumer Protection And Social Methods Of Continental And Anglo-American Contract Law And The Transnational Outlook, Andreas Maurer
Consumer Protection And Social Methods Of Continental And Anglo-American Contract Law And The Transnational Outlook, Andreas Maurer
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Debates over the content of recent EU directives and U.S. statutory amendments related to consumer protection highlight the importance of such regulation. Criticism calling for a return to freedom of contract in both regions reflects a tension between social ideals related to equality between private parties, and a deep distrust of state intervention and market regulation. With the rise of private sources for transnational commercial standards and practices, there is an opportunity for states to facilitate selfregulation in lieu of producing public substantive regulations. This approach seems to satisfy a well-established need for consumer protection without exacerbating government intervention in …
Changing Contract Lenses: Unexpected Supervening Events In English, New Zealand, U.S., Japanese, And International Sales Law And Practice, Luke Nottage
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article compares differences in the reasoning underlying contractual relationships between English and New Zealand law and U.S. and Japanese law. It then builds upon an existing framework by adding the notion of didactic formality to identify another important contrast between the laws of these countries. It also discusses how CISG and UPICC fit in to this spectrum. The article concludes by questioning "strong convergence" theory in commercial law worldwide.
Governing Contracts – Public and Private Perspectives, Symposium. Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, November 9-10, 2006
The True Lex Mercatoria: Law Beyond The State, Ralf Michaels
The True Lex Mercatoria: Law Beyond The State, Ralf Michaels
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Is there an anational lexr meratoria, a "global law without a state?" The debate seems infinite. Some argue that the rules, institutions, and procedures of international arbitration have now achieved a sufficient degree both of autonomy from the state and of legal character that they represent such an anational law. Others respond that whatever law merchant may exist is really state law-dependent on national norms and the freedom of contract they provide, and on the enforceability of arbitral awards by national courts. This paper suggests that the dichotomy of anational law and state law is false. Although an anational law …
The Failure Of Economic Interpretations Of The Law Of Contract Damages, Nathan B. Oman
The Failure Of Economic Interpretations Of The Law Of Contract Damages, Nathan B. Oman
Washington and Lee Law Review
The law of contracts is complex but remarkably stable. What we lack is a widely accepted interpretation of that law as embodying a coherent set of normative choices. Some scholars have suggested that either economic efficiency or personal autonomy provide unifying principles of contract law. These two approaches, however, seem incommensurable, which suggests that we must reject at least one of them in order to have a coherent theory. This Article dissents from this view and has a simple thesis: Economic accounts of the current doctrine governing contract damages have failed, but efficiency arguments remain key to any adequate theory …
The Dubious Upgrade Of International Development Contracts, Gabriel Swiney
The Dubious Upgrade Of International Development Contracts, Gabriel Swiney
Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review
No abstract provided.
Toward A Fairer Model Of Consumer Assent To Standard Form Contracts: In Defense Of Restatement Subsection 211(3), Wayne R. Barnes
Toward A Fairer Model Of Consumer Assent To Standard Form Contracts: In Defense Of Restatement Subsection 211(3), Wayne R. Barnes
Washington Law Review
Standard form contracts permeate our very existence, and now even include contracts we assent to online by way of "clickwrap" and "browsewrap" methods. Notwithstanding the ever-increasing presence and complexity of such standard form contracts, both offline and online, the law of contracts in this area has remained fairly static since before the nineteenth century. The only meaningful salve to the problem of misinformed assent to onerous clauses in standard form contracts thus far has been the unconscionability doctrine, but that doctrine tends to be reserved for the harshest and severest terms. Therefore, a new tool is needed for courts to …
Toward A Fairer Model Of Consumer Assent To Standard Form Contracts: In Defense Of Restatement Subsection 211(3), Wayne R. Barnes
Toward A Fairer Model Of Consumer Assent To Standard Form Contracts: In Defense Of Restatement Subsection 211(3), Wayne R. Barnes
Washington Law Review
Standard form contracts permeate our very existence, and now even include contracts we assent to online by way of "clickwrap" and "browsewrap" methods. Notwithstanding the ever-increasing presence and complexity of such standard form contracts, both offline and online, the law of contracts in this area has remained fairly static since before the nineteenth century. The only meaningful salve to the problem of misinformed assent to onerous clauses in standard form contracts thus far has been the unconscionability doctrine, but that doctrine tends to be reserved for the harshest and severest terms. Therefore, a new tool is needed for courts to …
Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. V. Cardegna: The Latest Example Of How The Supreme Court Has Turned The Federal Arbitration Act Into A State-Defying Monstrosity, Brian C. Groesser
Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. V. Cardegna: The Latest Example Of How The Supreme Court Has Turned The Federal Arbitration Act Into A State-Defying Monstrosity, Brian C. Groesser
North Carolina Central Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introductory Remarks: Contract Law And Morality, Nathan B. Oman
Introductory Remarks: Contract Law And Morality, Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
On Virtual Worlds: Copyright And Contract Law At The Dawn Of The Virtual Age, Erez Reuveni
On Virtual Worlds: Copyright And Contract Law At The Dawn Of The Virtual Age, Erez Reuveni
Indiana Law Journal
This Article argues that copyright law can and should apply to artistic and literary creations occurring entirely in virtual worlds. First, the Article introduces the concept of virtual worlds as places millions of people visit not only for entertainment but also for life and work. Second, the Article reviews the philosophical justifications for copyright, examines objections to applying copyright to virtual, rather than real, creative works, and concludes that neither precludes copyright for virtual creations. Third, the Article articulates how copyright law would function within virtual spaces and reviews copyrightable creations from the perspective of both game developers and players. …
Contract As A Transfer Of Ownership, Peter Benson
Contract As A Transfer Of Ownership, Peter Benson
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Morality And Contract: The Question Of Paternalism, James Gordley
Morality And Contract: The Question Of Paternalism, James Gordley
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Moral Impossibility Of Contract, Peter A. Alces
The Moral Impossibility Of Contract, Peter A. Alces
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Determinacy And Moral Justification , Jody S. Kraus
Legal Determinacy And Moral Justification , Jody S. Kraus
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Origins Of A Coming Crisis: Renewal Of The Churchill Falls Contract, James P. Feehan, Melvin Baker
The Origins Of A Coming Crisis: Renewal Of The Churchill Falls Contract, James P. Feehan, Melvin Baker
Dalhousie Law Journal
The 1969 Churchill Falls contract between Hydro-Quebec and the Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation has been the subject of political controversy. It has also been challenged in the courts, with appeals reaching to the Supreme Court of Canada. Yet, despite the scrutiny of those court cases, the political rhetoric, and the literature that has been spawned by this matter, an extraordinary element of that contract remains remarkably obscure. It is the contract's renewal clause. At the expiry of the contract's forty-four-year term in 2016, that clause requires an automatic renewal for twenty-five additional years at a fixed nominal price that is …
Property, Contracts, And Politics, Mark Tushnet
Property, Contracts, And Politics, Mark Tushnet
Michigan Law Review
Rebecca Scott is a historian, not an economist. Describing how a dispute over a mule's ownership was resolved, Professor Scott reproduces a receipt two claimants left when they took the mule from the plantation whose manager claimed it as well (p. 185). By contrast, analyzing property relations in the pre-Civil War American South, economic historian Jenny Wahl observes, "[E]conomic historians tend to [use] ... frequency tables, graphs, and charts." The differences in visual aids to understanding indicate the various ways historians and economists approach a single topic-the relation between markets and politics, the latter defined to include the deployment of …
Conflict Of Interest, Duress And Unconscionability In Quebec Civil Law: Comment On "The Origins Of A Coming Crisis: Renewal Of The'churchill Falls Contract", Sarah P. Bradley
Conflict Of Interest, Duress And Unconscionability In Quebec Civil Law: Comment On "The Origins Of A Coming Crisis: Renewal Of The'churchill Falls Contract", Sarah P. Bradley
Dalhousie Law Journal
As Professor James Feehan and archivist-historian Melvin Baker describe the circumstances in which the fateful renewal provision of the 1969 Churchill Falls hydro contract was negotiated, they suggest that the legal doctrines of conflict of interest or economic duress might offer a basis upon which the contract, or perhaps the renewal provision, could be impugned. In addition to interesting historical insights, their analysis offers the intriguing possibility that the government of Newfoundland may yet succeed in its long-standing battle to rid itself of its obligations under the grossly disadvantageous Churchill Falls contract.
Enforcement Of Contractual Terms In Clickwrap Agreements: Courts Refusing To Enforce Forum Selection And Binding Arbitration Clauses, Rachel Cormier Anderson
Enforcement Of Contractual Terms In Clickwrap Agreements: Courts Refusing To Enforce Forum Selection And Binding Arbitration Clauses, Rachel Cormier Anderson
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
In three recent cases, courts have invalidated portions of consumer clickwrap agreements containing either forum selection or binding arbitration clauses. In the first case, the Washington State Court of Appeals invalidated a forum selection clause found in a clickwrap agreement because the clause was contrary to state consumer protection policies. In the second case, the California Court of Appeals rejected a clickwrap agreement calling for binding arbitration in a specified forum when the plaintiff sought to bring a class action claim. Finally, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently declared a binding arbitration clause because it was …