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ContractsProf Blog
Parties May Still Rescind from Contracts Based on Obvious Unilateral Mistakes
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit just reconfirmed the traditional rule that when one of the parties to a contract has, without gross fault or laches on his…
ContractsProf Blog
Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (July 7, 2016)
By Mark Burge
SSRN Top Downloads For Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 593 What We Buy When We 'Buy Now' Aaron Perzanowski and Chris Jay Hoofnagle Case Western Reserve University…
ContractsProf Blog
Ticket Scalping Machines – An Intersection between Contracts and Criminal Law
Have you ever tried buying concert tickets right when they were made available for sale on the Internet, only to find out mere minutes later that they were all sold…
ContractsProf Blog
Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads (June 30, 2016)
By Mark Burge
SSRN Top Downloads For Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 587 What We Buy When We 'Buy Now' Aaron Perzanowski and Chris Jay Hoofnagle Case Western Reserve University…
Family Law Prof Blog
Tiger Mom on Contracts with the Cubs
By Family Law
Yale Law Professor Amy Chua, writing for the Wall Street Journal:I recently had a harrowing parenting experience, which I addressed through recourse to the law.My daughters Sophia and Lulu are…
ContractsProf Blog
Standard Contract Advice, Of Course: Be Careful What You Agree To
Why? Because a court is probably going to hold you to it. This case, Frick Joint Venture v. Village Super Market, Inc., Docket No. A-1441-15T1, out of New Jersey, is a…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Get it while you can
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Drafting guru Ken Adams now has a print edition available of his ebook, "The Structure of M&A Contracts". I recommend this book to anyone dipping their toe into an M&A practice.…
Texas Bar Blog
Four agreements: client tips for navigating music industry contracts
Musicians, songwriters, and producers packed the room for this South by Southwest session titled “Four Agreements Every Artist Needs to Understand.” The goal was to give audience members a better…
ContractsProf Blog
Attempt to Pass on the Hot Potato Nixed
In a perhaps somewhat unsurprising but good holding, the Seventh Circuit has nixed a company’s attempt to not live up to its contractual promises regarding the technical functions and warranties…
ContractsProf Blog
Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (May 19, 2016)
By Mark Burge
SSRN Top Downloads For Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 423 Major League Soccer as a Case Study in Complexity Theory Steven A. Bank University of California, Los…