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Licenses: Theater ticket isn’t a contract
A plaintiff injured by a falling piece of ceiling can’t use a contract theory to get around the provisions of Colorado’s premises liability law, says the state’s court of appeals.In…
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Richards to visit at TWU
Clark Richards, of Jackson Walker LLP’s office in Austin, will join Texas Wesleyan School of Law as a visiting associate professor teaching Contracts next fall.Richards earned his B.A. in economics…
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Coming home to roost
Contract chicken-raising is a big business. About 90 percent of U.S. chickens are raised in a system in which big companies like Tyson, Perdue, and Pilgrim’s Pride provide the chicks…
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Kim joins faculty at Southwestern
L.A.’s Southwestern University School of Law has added a high-powered practitioner with an academic bent to teach Contracts. Sung Hui Kim, the General Counsel of Red Bull North America, Inc.,…
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The one with the most money wins
Contracts folks who are also soccer fans may be interested in Deloitte & Touche’s annual "Money League"—the annual competition to see which team makes the most money. Part 1 of…
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Georgia Regents honor Coenen
The University of Georgia Board of Regents has honored longtime Contracts and Con Law professor Dan Coenen with its prestigious "University Professor" title. The Regents can create only one University…
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Weekly Top 10
The Top 10 Contracts-Related downloads from the SSRN network, for the 60 days ending February 27:1. Emerging Policy and Practice Issues, by Steven L. Schooner & Christopher R. Yukins2. Rawls…
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Perillo on Pothier
Through an accident of history, the great French legal thinker Robert Joseph Pothier is best-known as the original author of the damages rule later adopted in Hadley v. Baxendale. But,…
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Professor Spotlight: Hazel Beh
This week's Professor Spotlight is on the University of Hawai'i's Hazel Glenn Beh, who took an unusual path to teaching contracts, but it happy she did. As she likes to…
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Contract clause may stymie takeover
A contractual change-of-control clause in a key contract has thrown a roadblock in front of the attempted acquisition of Britain's Woolworth's by a private equity fund. The Apax group had…