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ContractsProf Blog
AALS: What I Really Hate About Commercial Law
The AALS Contracts Section's program is, as we've mentioned before, scheduled for Saturday, January 7, 2006. But there's a great warm-up planned for Friday, when our sister Section on Commercial…
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Non-Contract Tools and IT Contracting
There are methods for for contracting parties engaged in complex tasks to ensure performance that don't involve putting terms in the contract. They may rely on reputation, for example, or…
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Only the Best for Sinatra
The late Frank Sinatra had a reputation as a man who liked his food and his liquor. But his tastes were good, not trendy. For example, his touring performance contract…
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Yanks Buy Damon
Speaking of contracts, the New York Yankees have landed leadoff hitter Johnny Damon (batting, at left) from their arch-rival Boston Red Sox, offering the 32-year-old center fielder a four-year deal…
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Birds of a Feather
In preparation for exams, many of my students have been emailing me questions about specific cases. One student (who gave me his permission to post this) wrote to me with…
Chicago Family Law Blog
Grounds to Challenge a Premarital Agreement
A premarital (or prenuptial) agreement is a contract entered into by a couple prior to marriage with the terms becoming effective when they marry. Generally, premarital agreements specify the property…
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John Lennon on Executing Contracts
On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death, this story from anecdotage.com:George Harrison once refused to allowJohn Lennon to join him onstage during a concert and later denied him abackstage…
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The Latest in the T.O. Contract Saga
Old news: the Philadelphia Eagles havesuspended wide receiver Terrell Owens and deactivated him for the rest of thefootball season. Also old news: in a lengthy opinion, an arbitrator recently upheld…
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Today in History: Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon
On this date, December 4, 1917, the New York Court of Appeals handed down its decision in Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88 (1917). The opinion by…
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Ayres & Klass on Promissory Fraud
Oliver Wendell Holmes famously noted that there is no moral component to contract law; that a contract was a mere option either to perform what was promised or to pay…