Recently I encountered this law review article: Tara Chowdhury, Faith Chudkowski & Mitu Gulati, The Form Knows Best, 79 U. of Miami L. Rev. 607 (2025). In this post, I explain two quibbles. I also suggest that the reality the
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A Note from a Grateful Reader, and My Reply
By Ken Adams
The image below contains the text of an email message I received from a law student yesterday. In case it’s of interest, here’s how I responded: Hi [Name]. Fortunate is the author who gets this sort of message from a…
Eliminating Mistakes and Ambiguity from Contracts: Some Thoughts on a Recent Glenn West Article
By Ken Adams
Glenn West has been pumping out articles so fast that I haven’t kept up. I’ve started looking at the backlog; if I have anything to add, I’ll do so. That’s what I’m doing now, because this post was inspired by…
The Legalistic Mind Can Rationalize Anything
By Ken Adams
If a contract usage has been around long enough and appears in enough contracts, you’ll find people to defend it, no matter how archaic or otherwise nonsensical it is. A case in point: yesterday Ryan McCarl did this LinkedIn post…
A New Variant of Ambiguity of the Part Versus the Whole
By Ken Adams
Thanks to longtime tipster Steven Sholk, I learned of the recent opinion of the First Circuit in Dahua Technology USA, Inc. v. Feng Zhang (here). The language at issue is in the image at the top of this post, but…
Using Only Words to State Numbers?
By Ken Adams
Over the years, I’ve written plenty about the practice of expressing numbers using both words and digits, as in five (5) days’ notice. In MSCD, I recommend using words for one through ten and digits for 11 and up (with…
More Public “Drafting Clearer Contracts” Training
By Ken Adams
Now that all my scheduled public Drafting Clearer Contracts training has wrapped up, I’ve been asked politely when I’m going to get my act together and schedule more training. Well, that time is now! Here’s what I’ve just scheduled: For…
Glenn West’s New Article on the Meaning of “Material”
By Ken Adams
I belatedly noticed that Glenn West has written another Business Law Today article. This one is entitled On the Meaning of “Material”. In it, he cites my 2023 law review article The Word Material Is Ambiguous in Contracts, Why That’s…
“Gym Bag”: An Instance of Not Being Sufficiently Specific
By Ken Adams
When I try to make sense of a big new topic, usually I ask myself, What’s the taxonomy? What’s a sensible way to divide the pie? That’s what I did with the sources of uncertain meaning in contract language. A…
Throat-Clearing: It’s More than Verbs
By Ken Adams
Gaining control over your contract verb structures requires that you be familiar with “throat-clearing.” What’s throat-clearing? It’s when a drafter sticks a redundant verb structure at the beginning of a sentence. As my gift to you, here’s part of the…