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Today in History: Katie Gets a Present
On this date, May 1, 1891, John C. Ricketts signs a $2,000 promissory note in favor of his niece Katie Scothorn. He goes to the Mayer Bros. Clothing Co. in…
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Davis Honored at WFU
Wake Forest contracts prof Tim Davis has been selected by the law school's third-year class to win its Excellence in Teaching Award this year. Davis, who joined the Wake faculty…
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Contracts Limerick
We all know the fascination that contracts profs have with poetry (it dates back at least as far as Karl Llewelyn). For the past couple semesters at the two institutions…
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Three Sheets to the Wind, or Less
Bed sheets are normally sold by "thread count" -- how many strands of fiber run horizontally or vertically through a given inch of the fabric. Two large retailers, Bed Bath…
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Construction Warranties and Liability to Tenants
An interesting recent British case involving a contractual warranty in a construction case presented a knotty question of interpretation. In the case, Contractor had a contract with Developer, who in…
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Penalties and Financial Contracts
An interesting paper that we're noting a little belatedly: Penalties and Optimality in Financial Contracts: Taking Stock, by Michael A. Robe (American University-Business), Eva-Maria Steiger (Humboldt University-Berlin, left). and Pierre-Armand…
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Department of Contracts Musicology: The CISG Song
Inside the soul of every contracts professor there lurks an artist. Well, maybe not every contracts professor -- some of us are a little prosaic. But for some profs like…
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Drennan v. Star Paving
One of Justice Traynor's most famous contracts decisions is Drennan v. Star Paving, in which the court rewrote the economics of the contracting industry by holding that, in effect, subcontractor…
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more long-term contracts!
By legalwriting
At Western New England College School of Law, the faculty recently finalized a transition to long-term contracts for the legal writing professors. The last step in the transition was the…
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NYLS’s Gross Honored
New York Law School contracts prof Karen Gross will be honored tomorrow at a Women's History Month luncheon at SUNY Westchester Community College. Gross, who also is an expert in…