We posted last June about Amit Patel, a Jacksonville Jaguars employee who used his company’s credit card to gamble away over $20 million. He was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for that criminal conduct. He was diagnosed with
I admit that my first inclination when someone shares a case from Delaware state courts with me is to wince. They tend to be important. They tend to be long. Most of the facts involve transactions with a lot of
The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) invites expressions of interest for its Fourth Annual Workshop in Contract Law, Consumer Law, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Law, to be held at the 2027 SEALS Annual Conference, July 25–31, 2027, at the
Boris N. Mamlyuk
Against Self-Enforcement: Smart Contracts & Superintelligence
Abstract
“Smart contracts” were sold as contracts that enforce themselves. They do not, and cannot. The claim confuses three different ideas. Economists call an agreement self-enforcing when the parties keep it
The following is guest post by Richard Hyland (below), Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School
In his contracts course, Friedrich Kessler often discussed cases in pairs. As I taught from his casebook, I eventually found something to say about many
Sometimes a contracts claim is so small that it falls between the cracks of the mainstream media. But no claim is too small — or too contracts-adjacent — to escape the Friday Frivolity feature.
As Lois Kapila reports in The
After a long hiatus, we are back with our popular feature, the Reefer Brief. Just kidding, it was never popular, but the hiatus has been long.
Justin Givens is a cannabis consultant and the sole member of Apical Biotek, LLC
Last December, the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana certified a class of Indiana residents who placed winning bets with DraftKings, Inc. (DraftKings) on an NBA game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets. The day
A Comparative Common Law Study on Restitution from the State
Abstract
When should restitution from the State be available? The jurisdictions examined in this paper—England, Canada, Australia—once gave a common answer to this question,
Uri Benoliel is Professor of Law at the College of Law & Business and author of Disclosure Laws in the Digital Era: The Case of Franchising (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
