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ContractsProf Blog
Activision Avatar Update: I’m Just a…. Honky Tonk Woman
We had previously mentioned Courtney Love’s threatenedlawsuit against Activision for breach of contract – namely, for creating a game“Band Hero” that allows players to use a Kurt Cobain avatar to…
Best Practices Construction Law
Tennessee Supreme Court Says Environmental Laws Are Relevant in Punitive Damage Award Against Contractor
I love seeing a case zig zag through the appellate process ... and I especially enjoy reading one where intermediate appellate court reverses the trial court and the highest court then reverses that…
ContractsProf Blog
Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Academics Who Pay Attention to “What Happens in the Real World” and Contracts
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics earlier this week. The WSJ describes both of their work has “highlight[ing] areas where standard approaches of economics…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Richard Neumann at the Central Region Legal Writing Conference
Richard Neumann (Hofstra) presented on "The Six Things You Can Do in a Contract." As an exercise, he walked through the Facebook agreement that users agree to when they sign up…
Oklahoma Insurance Law
Oklahoma’s Statute Of Limitations For Contracts
The statute of limitation under 12 O.S. § 95 requires that a lawsuit for breach of contract must be brought within five years if the claim arises from a written…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Legal Scholarship and Contractual Complexity
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Over at the Conglomerate, guest blogger Afra Afsharipour has a couple of posts (here and here) dealing with the sparseness of legal scholarship on contractual complexity. Prof. Afsharipour, who practiced…
ContractsProf Blog
Blogging and Scholarship (More Self-Promotion)
The ContractsProf Blog maybe a gateway drug that can lead to serious scholarship. As depicted atleft, it may have all started with an innocent conversation at Woodstock aboutcontract law, party…
ContractsProf Blog
Contracts Limerick of the Week: Izadi v. Machado (Gus) Ford, Inc.
As I mentioned in introducing last week’s Limerick, although Lefkowitz and Izadi cover much the same ground, I think they go well together. In fact, I also have the students…
ContractsProf Blog
Contract Law, Party Sophistication and the New Formalism [File this under: Self-Promotion]
While I took a little break from blogging about the contractfoibles of faded celebrities, I managed to get out a draft of "ContractLaw, Party Sophistication and the New Formalism." Coming…
ContractsProf Blog
Another Blood Contract
We reported earlier this year about a contract written in blood. In that case, Plaintiff Kim opened his appellate brief with the statement, "Blood may be thicker than water, but…