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Articles 91 - 111 of 111
Full-Text Articles in Contracts
Plain Meaning Vs. Broad Interpretation: How The Risk Of Opportunism Defeats A Unitary Default Rule For Interpretation, Juliet P. Kostritsky
Plain Meaning Vs. Broad Interpretation: How The Risk Of Opportunism Defeats A Unitary Default Rule For Interpretation, Juliet P. Kostritsky
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Gambling, Commodity Speculation, And The 'Victorian Compromise', Joshua C. Tate
Gambling, Commodity Speculation, And The 'Victorian Compromise', Joshua C. Tate
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This Essay examines two major strands of nineteenth-century jurisprudence related to gambling: Southern cases defining public and private space for the purpose of state gambling statutes, and Northern cases applying the intent to deliver test to speculative contracts. The Essay argues that both lines of cases reflect what Lawrence Friedman has termed the Victorian compromise: A strong official stance against immoral behavior is conjoined with de facto acceptance of many questionable practices, provided that they are conducted in a manner acceptable to the elite. The Essay concludes that nineteenth-century judges sought to preserve the semblance of a strict prohibition against …
Rediscovering The Public Interest: An Analysis Of The Common Law Governing Post-Employment Non-Compete Contracts For Media Employees, Cathy Packer, Johanna Cleary
Rediscovering The Public Interest: An Analysis Of The Common Law Governing Post-Employment Non-Compete Contracts For Media Employees, Cathy Packer, Johanna Cleary
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Why U.S. Federal Criminal Penalties For Dealing In Illicit Cultural Property Are Ineffective, And A Pragmatic Alternative, Derek Fincham
Why U.S. Federal Criminal Penalties For Dealing In Illicit Cultural Property Are Ineffective, And A Pragmatic Alternative, Derek Fincham
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Sales, Carolyn L. Dessin, Keith A. Rowley, Robyn L. Meadows, Larry T. Garvin
Sales, Carolyn L. Dessin, Keith A. Rowley, Robyn L. Meadows, Larry T. Garvin
Akron Law Faculty Publications
This article provides an annual survey of developments in sales law under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The authors analyze significant judicial decisions from the preceding year, focusing on topics such as contract formation, the statute of frauds, warranties, remedies, and risk of loss. The survey highlights how courts have interpreted and applied UCC provisions, offering insights into emerging trends and potential areas of contention in sales law. By examining these developments, the article serves as a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars seeking to understand the evolving landscape of UCC Article 2 jurisprudence.
Slapping Around The First Amendment: An Analysis Of Oklahoma’S Anti-Slapp Statute And Its Implications On The Right To Petition, Laura Long
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Three Pictures Of Contract: Duty, Power And Compound Rule, Gregory Klass
Three Pictures Of Contract: Duty, Power And Compound Rule, Gregory Klass
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A fundamental divide among theories of contract law is between those that picture contract as a power and those that picture it as a duty. On the power-conferring picture, contracting is a sort of legislative act, in which persons determine what law will apply to their transaction. On the duty-imposing picture, contract law puts duties on persons entering into agreements for consideration whether they want them or not. Until now, very little attention has been paid to the problem of how to tell whether a given rule is power conferring or duty imposing -- a question that should lie at …
Lawyers Asleep At The Wheel? The Gm-Fisher Body Contract, Victor P. Goldberg
Lawyers Asleep At The Wheel? The Gm-Fisher Body Contract, Victor P. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
In the analysis of vertical integration by contract versus ownership one event has dominated the discussion – General Motors' merger with Fisher Body in 1926. The debates have all been premised on the assumption that the ten-year contract between the parties signed in 1919 was a legally enforceable agreement. However, it was not. Because Fisher's promise was illusory the contract lacked consideration. This note suggests that GM's counsel must have known this. It raises a significant question in transactional engineering: what is the function of an agreement that is not legally enforceable.
Desperately Seeking Consideration: The Unfortunate Impact Of U.C.C. Section 2-306 On Contract Interpretation, Victor P. Goldberg
Desperately Seeking Consideration: The Unfortunate Impact Of U.C.C. Section 2-306 On Contract Interpretation, Victor P. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
In Section 2-306, the Uniform Commercial Code's drafters intended to assure that two classes of agreements would be enforceable, even though they might appear on their face to be illusory. Variable quantity (output and requirements) contracts were buttressed by reading in a good faith standard (§ 2-306(1)) and exclusive dealing contracts were made enforceable by reading in a best efforts standard (§ 2-306(2)). This was a big mistake. In this paper I show how these two fixes create problems for interpreting contracts. I use two well-known cases, Feld v. Henry S. Levy & Sons, Inc. and Wood v. Lucy, …
Hoffman V. Red Owl Stores And The Myth Of Precontractual Reliance, Robert E. Scott
Hoffman V. Red Owl Stores And The Myth Of Precontractual Reliance, Robert E. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
For decades there has been substantial uncertainty regarding when the law will impose precontractual liability. The confusion is partly attributable to the unfortunate case of Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores and to the unusual degree of scholarly attention that it has attracted. A careful examination of the record of the Hoffman case reveals facts that are much different from conventional understanding. The disagreement between Joseph Hoffman and Red Owl Stores resulted from a fundamental misunderstanding between the parties regarding the terms of Hoffnan's capital contribution to the franchise. The misunderstanding was largely a product of Hoffnan's penchant for moving assets …
Precontractual Liability And Preliminary Agreements, Alan Schwartz, Robert E. Scott
Precontractual Liability And Preliminary Agreements, Alan Schwartz, Robert E. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
For decades, there has been substantial uncertainty regarding when the law will impose precontractual liability. The confusion is partly due to scholars' failure to recover the law in action governing precontractual liability issues. In this Article, Professors Schwartz and Scott show first that no liability attaches for representations made during preliminary negotiations. Courts have divided, however, over the question of liability when parties make reliance investments following a "preliminary agreement." A number of modern courts impose a duty to bargain in good faith on the party wishing to exit such an agreement. Substantial uncertainty remains, however, regarding when this duty …
Langdell Upside-Down: James Coolidge Carter And The Anticlassical Jurisprudence Of Anticodification, Lewis Grossman
Langdell Upside-Down: James Coolidge Carter And The Anticlassical Jurisprudence Of Anticodification, Lewis Grossman
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
The Search Interest In Contract, Joshua Fairfield
The Search Interest In Contract, Joshua Fairfield
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Parties often do not negotiate for contract terms. Instead, parties search for the products, terms, and contractual counterparties they desire. The traditional negotiation-centered view of contract leads courts to try to determine the meaning of the parties where no meaning was negotiated and to waste time determining the benefits of bargains that were never struck. Further, while courts have ample tools to validate specifically negotiated contract terms, they lack the tools to respond to searched-for terms. Although the law and literature have long recognized that there is a disconnect between the legal fictions of negotiation and the reality of contracting …
Constructive Haiku And The Law Of Contracts: Raintree County Memorial Library Occasional Paper No. 3, Douglass Boshkoff
Constructive Haiku And The Law Of Contracts: Raintree County Memorial Library Occasional Paper No. 3, Douglass Boshkoff
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Opting Out: Procedural Fair Use, Michael Mattioli
Opting Out: Procedural Fair Use, Michael Mattioli
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This article explores the advantages of opt-out plans, and identifies a critical shortcoming in Copyright's doctrine of Fair Use. The discussion is fueled by a current controversy: In December of 2004, Google, Inc. announced its plan to digitally scan thousands of copyrighted books as part of a massive new digital indexing service. Hedging against possible litigation, Google provided a free and easy opt-out procedure for authors who didn't want their books scanned. Despite this measure, two major authors' groups have sued Google, claiming the opt-out plan imposes an unfair burden. This article explores the fairness of established opt-outs in contract …
Contract Law, Chee Ho Tham, Pearlie Koh, Pey Woan Lee
Contract Law, Chee Ho Tham, Pearlie Koh, Pey Woan Lee
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
No abstract provided.
Contracts Without Law: Sovereign Versus Corporate Debt, Mitu Gulati, George G. Triantis
Contracts Without Law: Sovereign Versus Corporate Debt, Mitu Gulati, George G. Triantis
Faculty Scholarship
Although extralegal enforcement is widely acknowledged, the conventional understanding of written contract provisions, such as the complex and detailed provisions in bond contracts, is that they are drafted to be enforced by law. This framing neglects the value of contracts in shaping extralegal forces, particularly where litigation is unlikely or not possible. Sovereign debt contracts provide an example in which lengthy and detailed contracts play a key role even though the debtor is largely litigation-proof. We examine how contract provisions in sovereign debt contracts improve the efficiency of creditor control outside the realm of legal enforcement.
Comments On The European Commission’S Proposal For A Regulation Of The European Parliament And The Council On The Law Applicable To Contractual Obligations (Rome I), Ralf Michaels, Jürgen Basedow, Wolfgang Wurmnest
Comments On The European Commission’S Proposal For A Regulation Of The European Parliament And The Council On The Law Applicable To Contractual Obligations (Rome I), Ralf Michaels, Jürgen Basedow, Wolfgang Wurmnest
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
“An Ingenious Man Enabled By Contract”: Entrepreneurship And The Rise Of Contract, Catherine Fisk
“An Ingenious Man Enabled By Contract”: Entrepreneurship And The Rise Of Contract, Catherine Fisk
Faculty Scholarship
A legal ideology emerged in the 1870s that celebrated contract as the body of law with the particular purpose of facilitating the formation of productive exchanges that would enrich the parties to the contract and, therefore, society as a whole. Across the spectrum of intellectual property, courts used the legal fiction of implied contract, and a version of it particularly emphasizing liberty of contract, to shift control of workplace knowledge from skilled employees to firms while suggesting that the emergence of hierarchical control and loss of entrepreneurial opportunity for creative workers was consistent with the free labor ideology that dominated …
Arbitration Of Nursing Home Claims: Oklahoma Goes Its Own Way, Stanley A. Leasure
Arbitration Of Nursing Home Claims: Oklahoma Goes Its Own Way, Stanley A. Leasure
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Client Responsibility For Lawyer Conduct: Examining The Agency Nature Of The Lawyer-Client Relationship., Grace M. Giesel
Client Responsibility For Lawyer Conduct: Examining The Agency Nature Of The Lawyer-Client Relationship., Grace M. Giesel
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
In the 1962 decision of Link v. Wabash Railroad Co., the United States Supreme Court reviewed a district court's sua sponte dismissal of a diversity negligence action. Six years after the plaintiff filed the matter, the district court scheduled a pretrial conference and gave counsel two weeks notice of the scheduled conference. On the day of the conference, plaintiffs counsel called the court to say that he would be unable to attend the conference, giving the impolitic reason that he was busy preparing some documents for the state supreme court. The attorney did not attend the conference, and the district …