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  1. ContractsProf Blog

    Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (February 18, 2016)

    By Mark Burge

    SSRN Top Downloads For Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 526 Simplification of Privacy Disclosures: An Experimental Test Omri Ben-Shahar and Adam S. Chilton University of Chicago Law…

  2. ContractsProf Blog

    Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (February 11, 2016)

    By Mark Burge

      SSRN Top Downloads For Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 515 Simplification of Privacy Disclosures: An Experimental Test Omri Ben-Shahar and Adam S. Chilton University of Chicago…

  3. ContractsProf Blog

    Emerging Payment Systems and the Primacy of Private (Contract) Law

    By Mark Burge

    Is the public commercial law of payment systems being displaced by private contract law? The short answer is "yes." Recently, I had the opportunity to write an invited post for…

  4. ContractsProf Blog

    Classic Case Corner: Kirksey v. Kirksey

    By Mark Burge

    Classic Case Corner is an occasional series of posts highlighting staples of the Contracts curriculum and resources related to them. Our motto for CCC is, "If it's new to you, then…

  5. Winstead Business Divorce

    Risks Posed By “Do It Yourself” Legal Contracts: Just Don’t Do It

    By Ladd Hirsch

    Private company business owners often feel pressured to hold the line on costs, and the pressure only increases as market conditions become more challenging.  At the same time, the billing…

  6. ContractsProf Blog

    Contracts Professors: Prepare to Meet Robolawyer

    By Mark Burge

    Do law students intending to practice in the areas of contracts and commercial law particularly need to consider the risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence?  It wouldn't hurt.At this month's AALS annual meeting, Harvard Law…

  7. ContractsProf Blog

    Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (January 14, 2016)

    By Mark Burge

      SSRN Top Downloads ForContracts & Commercial Law eJournal RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days 15 Nov 2015 through 14 Jan 2016 RankDownloadsPaper…

  8. The Faculty Lounge

    KCON XI (International Conference on Contracts)

    From an email message which I received in recent days: 11th International Conference on Contracts (KCON XI)Feb. 26 and 27, 2016St. Mary’s University School of LawSan Antonio, Texas The St.…

  9. ContractsProf Blog

    Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (December 31, 2015)

    By Mark Burge

    SSRN Top Downloads ForContracts & Commercial Law eJournal RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days 1 Nov 2015 through 31 Dec 2015 RankDownloadsPaper Title…

  10. ContractsProf Blog

    Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (December 24, 2015)

    By Mark Burge

      SSRN Top Downloads For Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 157 Legal Transplants in the Law of the Deal: M&A Agreements in India Afra Afsharipour University of…