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Contracts
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Professor Spotlight: Omri ben Shahar
Omri Ben-Shahar joined the University of Michigan Law School in 1998, after teaching for three years at Tel-Aviv University. He had also served as a research fellow at the Israel…
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Cases–Third Party Beneficiaries–Employees
A public school teacher is not a third party beneficiary of a state-mandated job preservation agreement entered into by her former and present employers, according to the Tennessee Court of…
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It’s doubtful he talked to a lawyer about this one
The latest news from the murder trial of Robert (Baretta) Blake revolves around a bizarre "custody contract" he signed with the alleged victim, Bonny Lee Blakley.Blake apparently had attempted to…
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Law, institutions, and the shape of financial contracts
It’s intuitive to most of us that the law and legal institutions play a role in shaping the form of contracts. But how, and how much, has been much more…
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There’s something about Harry
One of the delightful things about teaching Contracts is that you almost never have to think about the jurisprudence of Justice Harry Blackmun. (Or, to be fair, any of his…
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A classic personal satisfaction clause
From the Department of Classic Literary Contracts, this from Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott.The affable Prior Aymer and the Knight Templar Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert are riding to a tournament,…
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George Washington and the drunken gardener
The Father of Our Country dealt with a lot of troublesome things in his time, but one of them—as has sometimes been the case for other employers—was the drinking habits…
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AALS—Day 4
The annual program hits its high point this afternoon, with the Contracts Section program at 1:30 p.m. Chair Juliet Kostritsky leads a panel on "Incomplete Contracts: The Implications for Contract…
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Illinois gets new farmers’ contract laws
The law has always had a special fondness for farmers menaced by big city hustlers, and as of January 1, Illinois has added a new layer of protection, with the…
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An empirical look at Hadley v. Baxendale
One hundred and fifty years later, the consequences of the broken mill shaft at the City Flour Mills (left) are still being studied. Now, a new paper on SSRN from…