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ArticlesJudy Fudge, The Limits of Good Faith in the Contract of Employment: From Addis to Vorvis to Wallace and Back Again?, 32 Queen's L.J. 529 (2007).Sandra F. Sperino (top left),…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Business Agreements and the Right to Lie
Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, a professor at Suffolk University School of Law and a visitor this year at Tulane Law School, has recently published an Article in the Delaware Journal of…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Military Enlistment “Contracts”
Pepperdine Law Review just published a student comment discussing military enlistment "contracts." I put "contracts" in quotes because, as the comment points out, these are one-sided deals: the soldier is…
California Employment Law Update
Child Actor (But Not Child’s Mother) Could Disaffirm Contract With Personal Manager
By Tony Oncidi
Berg v. Traylor, 148 Cal. App. 4th 809 (2007) Meshiel Cooper Traylor and her minor son Craig Lamar Traylor appealed the judgment confirming an arbitration award in favor of Craig’s…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Forum Selection Clauses (AKA The Details Matter)
On Saturday, Bank of America threatened in a Dutch court to bring a lawsuit against ABN Amro in New York over BofA's and ABN Amro's agreement to sell LaSalle Bank…
Legal Profession Blog
Rent a Wonderful Vacation House from a Contract Theorist
Posted by Jeff LipshawMy wife and I own a wonderful little house in Charlevoix, Michigan. It is available for vacation rentals this summer. We hired an agent to rent the…
ContractsProf Blog
Technology, Offer and Acceptance
Today the Wall Street Journal (print edition) reported that customers of UPS will be able to recall packages after they have been sent. As the story describes:The package-delivery giant rolled…
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Contracts as Organizations
Gordon Smith (Wisconsin, Law) and Brayden King (BYU, Sociology) have posted to SSRN a paper entitled Contracts as Organizations. Here's the abstract:Empirical studies of contracts have become more common over…
Rush on Business
Entering Into a Strategic Business Alliance? Get it in Writing
By Rush Nigut
Thanks to a post by Kevin O'Keefe I discovered a terrific business law blog written by New York business lawyer Nina Kauffman. Nina had a recent post on how the…
ContractsProf Blog
UNLV Looking for a Podium Visitor
UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law is looking for a visitor to teach some combination of Contracts, Sales & Leases, Payment Systems, and Secured Transactions during the 2007-08 academic…