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ContractsProf Blog
Hunter S. Thompson on Contracts
Gawker has it here. Apparently Hunter Thompson wasn't a fan of signing anything, deciding instead to scrawl Dick Cheney's name on the signature block, along with expletives and swastikas. Ironically,…
The Faculty Lounge
Contracts Prof Finds Herself in Real-Life Contracts Hypo
Due to the Icelandic volcano, my friend Prof. Susan Franck(W&L) finds herself living out a contracts problem. During the past semester, Susan has been in Geneva, as a Scholar in…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Kapeliuk & Klement on Contracting Around Twombly
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Daphna Kapeliuk and Alon Klement (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law) have posted on SSRN their forthcoming article Contracting Around Twombly, 60 DePaul L. Rev. (forthcoming Oct. 2010).…
ContractsProf Blog
Love and Sex and Contracts [File this in: Stuff Even a Contracts Professor Couldn’t Make Up]
I have to interrupt the high brow arbitration talk with this story from the Chicago Sun-Times:A north suburban attorney is suing his former son-in-law for more than $1 million, alleging…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
The insclusion of a signficant additional deductible into an existing insurance contract following protracted negotiations was upheld despite inconsistencies in the amended contract.
The action by an owner of a fleet of ships ("More Marine") against its Insurers and its insurance broker was dismissed where the Court found that a deductible clause allowing…
ContractsProf Blog
Cities Compete for Access to ContractsProf Blog
Mayors across the country have been performing outrageous stunts, each seeking to outdo each other in an attempt to demonstrate to the ContractsProf Blog their commitment to getting their residents…
ContractsProf Blog
A Contract to Share
A few weeks ago, Professors Douglas Kysar (below right) and Jon Hanson (below left) delivered the Monsanto Lecture at the Valparaiso University School of Law, "Abnormally Dangerous: Inequality Dissonance and the Making…
ContractsProf Blog
The Ethicist and the Lawyer
As I have previously confessed, I read Randy Cohen's "The Ethicist" column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Mr. Cohen occasionally uses the law as a point of reference…
Med Law Blog
Medical Staff Bylaws as Contracts in Georgia
Maria Danaher and Ogletree Deakins have posted an article on a medical staff discrimination case that focuses on the contractual requiremants and the medical staff bylaws issue at http://www.employmentlawmatters.net/. Not…
ContractsProf Blog
UNLV Conference Already Paying Off!
No sooner did I return from the Spring Contracts conference in Las Vegas when I received an e-mail from a former students seeking guidance on a research project. The student…