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Contracts
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Securities Law Prof Blog
Eisenberg & Miller on Attorney Fee Clauses
The English vs. The American Rule on Attorneys Fees: An Empirical Study of Attorney Fee Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies’ Contracts, by Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell University - School of Law, and…
ContractsProf Blog
Happy one millionth page view!
Early this morning ContractsProf recorded its 1,000,000th page view. In a little over six years, that comes to -- well, if we could do the math we wouldn't be law…
ContractsProf Blog
One of the Best Parts of Ricky Martin’s Book is a…. Contract
Ricky Martin (musician of Menudo and then La Vida Loca fame) has written an autobiography titled Me. Gawker selflessly reads Martin’s book and provides the highlights (so that you don’t have…
ContractsProf Blog
Symeonides on comparative choice of law in contracts
Much of American commercial law is based on a paradox: commercial transactions are so complex that it is impossible to develop detailed rules in advance, yet after the fact the correct resolution…
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If you can’t stand the Heat . . . .
The NBA's Miami Heat this off-season added LeBron James to a roster that already included Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. If you want an economist's explanation of why the team will…
ContractsProf Blog
Ribstein on Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home
Due to a couple of peewee football games, a child's birthday, and various other things, I've not yet posted my thoughts on the recent conference at Western New England law…
ContractsProf Blog
Barnett Talk at NYU
If you're in the Big Apple tomorrow (Thursday, 10/14/10), you might want to catch Contracts/Con Law scholar Randy Barnett, who's delivering the 6th annual Friedrich von Hayek Lecture at New…
ContractsProf Blog
TV Commercials as Offers?
The folks at Chrysler are trying to sell trucks, and they're pitching a 60-day return-it-if-you-don't-like-it policy in a new commercial that raises some interesting contract law questions.In Leonard v. Pepsico,…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Note to Self
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Note to Self: Remember not to unilaterally change the text of contracts that have been signed (via Adams Drafting), even if it's only to "fix" them:The dispute over who owns…
International Law Prof Blog
CISG Update
The latest countries to join the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) are the Dominican Republic and Turkey, which became the 75th and 76th…