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Contract Drafting
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The D&O Diary
D&O Insurance: Contract Exclusion Does Not Preclude Coverage for Intentional Misrepresentation Claim
A recurring D&O insurance question is whether or not a policy’s contract exclusion precludes coverage for claims that the insured induced the claimant into entering a contract through negligent or…
ContractsProf Blog
The Hobbit and the Meaning of a Bargain
I recently saw the last Hobbit movie, The Battle of the Five Armies. I found it highly entertaining and was delighted to find a discussion about contracts between Bard, the leader of…
Education Law Prof Blog
Scholarship: Marking the “Four Corners” of the IEP to Mitigate Unequal Bargaining Power between Parent-Guardians and School Districts
The paper that received the George Jay Joseph Education Law Writing Award from the Education Law Association is available now on Lexis: Matthew Saleh, Public Policy, Parol Evidence and Contractual…
Georgia Bankruptcy Law Network
My Contract Says I Cannot File For Bankruptcy? Is this Right?
By Scott Riddle
Occasionally we see loan agreement or other contracts that have a provision in them that says the borrower will not file for Bankruptcy or that the Borrower has waived their…
China Law Update Blog
Supreme Court’s Latest Interpretation on Late Payment Interest
By Sharon Xu
The Supreme People’s Court of China recently issued an interpretation on how to calculate the interest accrued on delayed payment - Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court of Several Issues…
ContractsProf Blog
Northwestern Law’s Zev J. Eigen’s New Drafting Exercise
Northwestern University Law School’s Zev J. Eigen (pictured), visiting at NYU School of Law this fall, has developed a new online contract drafting practicum for first year students. Here are the…
Energy Law Report
Sixth Circuit affirms Chesapeake’s right to “extend or renew” an oil and gas lease
In Eastham v. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C., 6th Cir. No. 13-4233, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 10531 (June 6, 2014), the Sixth Circuit court of appeals considered whether a provision in a…
Health Law Update
Let The Rejoicing Begin, Or Not—Massachusetts AG’s Settlement With Partners Healthcare Is No Harbinger of Things to Come
After almost half a dozen years of investigating Partners HealthCare’s (Partners) contracting practices and its proposed acquisitions of two competing hospital systems, Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Martha Coakley announced a…
Energy & the Law
Perils of “Other Provisions” in the Model Form JOA
Scriveners, when you add those “Other Provisions” in Article XVI of your model from JOA’s, are you sure that the document remains internally consistent, that no “Other Provision” conflicts with the…
Renewable + Law
Freedom to Contract: PUC Has Jurisdiction to Evaluate Force Majeure Clause Under Idaho Law
This post was written by our colleague Tami Boeck for the Ahead of Schedule construction law blog. The Idaho Supreme Court recently determined in Idaho Power Company v. New Energy…