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Anticipatory Breach And The Enforcement Of Contractual Duties, Henry Winthrop Ballantine University of Minnesota

Anticipatory Breach And The Enforcement Of Contractual Duties, Henry Winthrop Ballantine

Michigan Law Review

The doctrine of anticipatory breach, announced in England in 1853 in the leading case of Hochster v. De La, Tour, presents some interesting questions of legal theory. While it has been almost universally accepted by the courts of this country, the principles upon which the doctrine rests have been seriously questioned and the courts have shown an unfortunate bewilderment and hesitation in its extension and application. Professor Williston, probably the leading American authority in the field of contracts, has for many years been a vigorous critic of this doctrine. He goes so far as to assert that the doctrine …

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Perbandingan Sistem Hukum Civil Law Dan Common Law Dalam Penerapan Yurisprudensi Ditinjau Dari Politik Hukum, Praise Juinta W.S. Siregar Komisi Pemilihan Umum Republik Indonesia

Perbandingan Sistem Hukum Civil Law Dan Common Law Dalam Penerapan Yurisprudensi Ditinjau Dari Politik Hukum, Praise Juinta W.S. Siregar

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

The legal system is related to the concept of law, where the two things have an inseparable relationship with each other. In principle, the legal system regulates the life of a community so that conflicts do not occur, where if the conflict is unavoidable, then the legal system has an important role in resolving the conflict. The legal system in the judiciary has a major influence in the application of the law, especially for judges in examining and deciding a case. The Panel of Judges in deciding a case will definitely pay close attention to the legal system in its …

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Specific Performance - Injunctions To Enforce Negative Covenants In Contracts For Personal Services, Benjamin H. Dewey University of Michigan Law School

Specific Performance - Injunctions To Enforce Negative Covenants In Contracts For Personal Services, Benjamin H. Dewey

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff entered into a contract with defendant in which defendant agreed to participate in a boxing match with the then heavyweight champion of the world. The contract also provided that if the defendant won the bout and himself became heavyweight champion he would render his services as a boxer in his first boxing contest thereafter, in defense of his title, under plaintiff's auspices. The contract further provided that defendant was to engage in no other boxing contests in which a decision was rendered prior to such championship bout, without the written consent of the plaintiff. Subsequently, three amendatory contracts were …

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Dikai Emporikai: A Response To Alberto Maffi, Mark J. Sundahl Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University

Dikai Emporikai: A Response To Alberto Maffi, Mark J. Sundahl

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An Excellent Genealogy Of The Core Concepts Of Indian Contract Law: A Review Of Dr. Shivprasad Swaminathan’S “A Historical Introduction To Indian Contract Law” (Routledge 2025), Katy Barnett Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School

An Excellent Genealogy Of The Core Concepts Of Indian Contract Law: A Review Of Dr. Shivprasad Swaminathan’S “A Historical Introduction To Indian Contract Law” (Routledge 2025), Katy Barnett

National Law School of India Review

This review discusses Dr Shivprasad Swaminathan’s new book, ‘A Historical Introduction to Indian Contract Law’, including his discussion of the history of Indian contract law, formation of contracts, contractual consideration, privity, contractual vitiating factors, frustration, damages and stipulated sums, and unjustified enrichment. As noted in the last chapter of Dr Swaminathan’s book, the discussion goes to the very heart of the common law itself and how it operates. We can all learn from the Indian experience of codification.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes's Theory Of Contract Law At The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Daniel P. O'Gorman Barry University

Oliver Wendell Holmes's Theory Of Contract Law At The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Daniel P. O'Gorman

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Expert Insights On Best Practices For Community Benefits Agreements, Matthew Eisenson, Romany M. Webb Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Expert Insights On Best Practices For Community Benefits Agreements, Matthew Eisenson, Romany M. Webb

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

This report outlines 35 recommendations for developers and host communities when negotiating and drafting Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) for direct air capture hubs and other clean energy projects. These recommendations come from interviews with attorneys and other experts who have collectively negotiated dozens of CBAs for climate infrastructure and other types of projects.

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Legal Ethics For The Millennials Avoiding The Compromise Of Integrity, Helia Garrido Hull Barry University

Legal Ethics For The Millennials Avoiding The Compromise Of Integrity, Helia Garrido Hull

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The Bitter Ironies Of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In The First Year Law School Curriculum, Duncan Kennedy Harvard Law School

The Bitter Ironies Of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In The First Year Law School Curriculum, Duncan Kennedy

Buffalo Law Review

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The Objective Theory Of Contracts, Wayne Barnes Texas A&M University School of Law

The Objective Theory Of Contracts, Wayne Barnes

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The objective theory of contracts is the dominant approach for determining whether there has been mutual assent to the formation of a contract. Under objective theory, a party’s manifestation of assent will be held to mean what a reasonable person in the position of the other party would conclude that the manifestation meant. The objective theory is a sound approach for determining assent because: it reflects the pragmatic reality that the law must be largely based on externals rather than the whim of subjective perception, it protects the basis for economic exchanges in our commercial system by enforcing the expectations …

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الإجتهاد اللبناني, POEJ 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

الإجتهاد اللبناني, Poej

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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تأثير سيادة الأمّة على واجبات الموظفين, جورج شقير 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

تأثير سيادة الأمّة على واجبات الموظفين, جورج شقير

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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نظام ضمان الودائع المصرفية في لبنان: محاولة تنظير, سليمان الجميّل 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

نظام ضمان الودائع المصرفية في لبنان: محاولة تنظير, سليمان الجميّل

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Bibliographie, POEJ 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Bibliographie, Poej

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Les Contrats D'Option : La Formation Du Contrat Final Et Les Avant-Contrats, Ibrahim Najjar 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Les Contrats D'Option : La Formation Du Contrat Final Et Les Avant-Contrats, Ibrahim Najjar

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Bibliographie De Droit Privé Libanais (1990-1992), Ibrahim Najjar 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Bibliographie De Droit Privé Libanais (1990-1992), Ibrahim Najjar

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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الإجتهاد اللبناني, POEJ 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

الإجتهاد اللبناني, Poej

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Les Clauses Attributives De Compétence Et Les Clauses Compromissoires En Droit International Privé Libanais, Nasri Antoine Diab 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Les Clauses Attributives De Compétence Et Les Clauses Compromissoires En Droit International Privé Libanais, Nasri Antoine Diab

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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La Dette De Jeu, Joêlle Khater 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

La Dette De Jeu, Joêlle Khater

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Valeur Et Place En Droit Interne De La Garantie À Première Demande, Alexandre Roger Najjar 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Valeur Et Place En Droit Interne De La Garantie À Première Demande, Alexandre Roger Najjar

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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الإجتهاد اللبناني, POEJ 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

الإجتهاد اللبناني, Poej

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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مسألة المقاصة بين حساب الإدّخار وحسابات المدّخر الأخرى, ميشال سمراني 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

مسألة المقاصة بين حساب الإدّخار وحسابات المدّخر الأخرى, ميشال سمراني

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Réflexions À L’Occasion Des Arrêts De La Cour D’Appel Du Mont-Liban Du 14 Avril 1992 Et De La Cour De Cassation Du 9 Juillet 1992 Relatifs Aux Clauses Attributives De Compétence En Droit International Privé Libanais, Nasri Antoine Diab 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Réflexions À L’Occasion Des Arrêts De La Cour D’Appel Du Mont-Liban Du 14 Avril 1992 Et De La Cour De Cassation Du 9 Juillet 1992 Relatifs Aux Clauses Attributives De Compétence En Droit International Privé Libanais, Nasri Antoine Diab

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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La Lex Mercatoria : Mythe Et Réalité, Walid Kassir 2026 Saint Joseph University of Beirut

La Lex Mercatoria : Mythe Et Réalité, Walid Kassir

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

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Digital Media And Its Effect On Domestic And International Copyright, Jasmine Martin 2026 Florida International University College of Law

Digital Media And Its Effect On Domestic And International Copyright, Jasmine Martin

Latin American & Caribbean Law Review

This article explores the history of modern copyright law and identifies the pitfalls of a legal framework built around physical media, such as the doctrines of first sale and fair use. As markets have shifted to digital distribution, these doctrines have been weakened or displaced by licensing regimes that redefine ownership as limited access. The article argues that this transition has systematically eroded consumer rights, allowing copyright holders to impose restrictions through contracts and technological controls that bypass traditional protections.

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Arbitration In Name Only, Myriam Gilles 2026 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Arbitration In Name Only, Myriam Gilles

Northwestern University Law Review

Modern arbitration clauses hide a dirty secret: many don’t actually provide for genuine arbitration. These provisions masquerade as mutual commitments to fair and efficient private dispute resolution but, in truth, are mere imitations of genuine arbitration provisions. Some reserve for the drafter the power to amend or terminate the clause at will without notice or consent; others design the arbitration process to ensure bias from the start; still others depart so radically from the bilateral, informal model blessed by the Supreme Court that they scarcely resemble arbitration at all. These arrangements are arbitration in name only, falling outside the Federal …

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A Look Inside The Nba’S Game-Changing Technical Foul: The Warner Bros. Discovery And Nba Broadcast Rights Dispute And How It Could Have Been Resolved Through Alternative Dispute Resolution, Nicola Coates 2026 Pepperdine University

A Look Inside The Nba’S Game-Changing Technical Foul: The Warner Bros. Discovery And Nba Broadcast Rights Dispute And How It Could Have Been Resolved Through Alternative Dispute Resolution, Nicola Coates

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Despite being “the greatest studio show in sports TV history” and winning numerous Emmy Awards, the TNT Sports icon Inside the NBA was on the brink of disappearing. In 2024, the National Basketball Association (NBA) opted into a $77 billion contract with NBC, Amazon, and Disney’s ESPN, ending its forty-year relationship with Warner Brothers Discovery (Warner Bros. Discovery), the parent company of TNT Sports. Warner Bros. Discovery filed suit, alleging that, by rejecting its offer in favor of NBC, Amazon, and Disney, the NBA breached the parties’ 2014 media rights agreement, which included a right to match third-party offers. The …

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Masthead, 2026 Seattle University School of Law

Masthead

Seattle University Law Review

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Table Of Contents, 2026 Seattle University School of Law

Table Of Contents

Seattle University Law Review

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Getting Money Out Of Politics By Putting Money Into Politics: A Few Modest Proposals To Reform Seattle’S Democracy Voucher Program, Decker O’Donnell 2026 Seattle University School of Law

Getting Money Out Of Politics By Putting Money Into Politics: A Few Modest Proposals To Reform Seattle’S Democracy Voucher Program, Decker O’Donnell

Seattle University Law Review

Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program offers an unconventional response to the growing influence of money in American elections: rather than restricting political spending, it seeks to amplify the participation of ordinary voters by providing publicly funded vouchers that residents may assign to participating candidates. This Article examines the program’s development, operation, and constitutional foundation within the modern campaign-finance framework established by Buckley v. Valeo and subsequent Supreme Court decisions. It argues that democracy vouchers provide a constitutionally viable means of broadening participation in campaign financing while mitigating the influence of wealthy donors. The Article identifies two weaknesses in the current system: …

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