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ContractsProf Blog
Contract Dispute in My Local Paper
I knew my subscription to the local paper would pay off at some point. Today's edition of the Post Tribune includes an account of what looks like an interesting contracts dispute.…
The Right Coast
I feel Jim Lindgren’s pain Tom Smith
Here.It reminds me of a puzzle I sometimes presented to my Contracts class. Suppose a seller makes a representation that no reasonable buyer would believe. Buyer nevertheless believes it and…
ContractsProf Blog
Always Depend on the Kindness of Colleagues
When I first started teaching contracts, I relied heavily on the advice of my more-experience colleague, who is now our Associate Dean, Mark Adams. I adopted the same casebook as…
Legal Profession Blog
Teaching Contracts
Posted by Jeff LipshawI've been asked to teach our six credit contracts course here next year, and have been puzzling (far ahead of time) about book adoption and teaching philosophy. …
ContractsProf Blog
What Happens When the Buyer of an Apartment Dies Between the Contract of Sale and Closing?
Here’s a worst-case-scenario story to take into account whencontracting to purchase real estate. Buyer of a $2,300,000 Manhattan co-op apartment dies after contract ofsale and approval by the co-op’s board of…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
ever edit a law journal contract?
Maybe it's just me, but every time I publish an article in a student-edited law journal (for our non-U.S. readers, student-edited law journals are the norm in the U.S.), I find myself…
ContractsProf Blog
Hurley v. Eddingfield: It’s the Law and It’s Ethical
I always start my contracts course with Hurley v. Eddingfield, in which the court held that a doctor has no contractual obligation to treat his own patient and need give…
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
Standard Forms Often Need Reconsideration
In light of the many changes in privacy, intellectual property, and e-commercial law that have occurred in the past decade, standard forms and model agreements that were first brought into…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
O’Hara & Ribstein on Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Erin A. O'Hara (Vanderbilt University School of Law; Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research) and Professor Larry E. Ribstein (University of Illinois College of Law) have posted "Conflict…
ContractsProf Blog
Now in Print: Catching Up (Round 1)
I began drafting this post on September 22, but delayed sending it because several new items had just come across the transom. As other responsibilities kept interfering with returning my attention…