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Contracts
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ContractsProf Blog
What’s So Great about Being the Master of the Offer?
I recently came across an article by Professor Sidney Kwestel that has many good and interesting things to say about the UCC's famous battle of the forms section, 2-207. However,…
ContractsProf Blog
International Conference on Contracts X: Call for Papers and Panel Proposals
Call for Participation and Proposals10th International Conference on Contracts (KCON 10)William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLVLas Vegas, Nevada February 27 & 28, 2015 UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law is…
ContractsProf Blog
Student Learning Outcomes and Hiding the Ball
The ABA has embraced the idea of student learning outcomes (see Standard 302). I have no objection to the rule as stated. If law schools are not striving to graduate…
Corporate Defense and Disputes
Applying Delaware’s Direct vs. Derivative Analysis to Contract Claims
By Karen Clarke
In NAF Holdings, LLC v. Li & Fung (Trading) Limited, 2014 WL 6462825 (2d Cir. Nov. 19, 2014), the Second Circuit considered, but did not decide, whether the usual direct/derivative analysis…
Franchise Law Update
We Forgot What? Here’s One Way to Handle a Missed Contract Term
[caption id="attachment_1279" align="alignleft" width="300"] Copyright: margouillat / 123RF Stock Photo[/caption] I stumbled upon this story at the Wall Street Journal's CMO Today blog. Arby's has an exclusive deal with Pepsi.…
ContractsProf Blog
Styl’n at the International Commercial Arbitration Moot
In a couple of previous posts I've described the International Commerical Arbitration Moot (ICAM) and detailed some aspects of this year's problem. None of this is news to the contracts,…
PropertyProf Blog
Horton on Indescendibility
David Horton (UC Davis) has posted Contractual Indescendibility (Hastings Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Testation is supposed to be comprehensive: when we die, we pass everything we own to…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Nixon Peabody MAC Survey
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Nixon Peabody has just released its annual MAC survey. It's worth downloading to check-in on the latest trends with respect to MACs in merger agreements. The biggest change in recent…
ContractsProf Blog
The New York Times’s “The Upshot” Column on Wrap Contracts
Yesterday's New York Times included a "The Upshot" column by Jeremy B. Merrill. The print version was entitled Online, It's Easy To Lose Your Right to Sue [by the way, why can't the Times…
Manufacturing Law Blog
Key Provisions In Contracts For Goods/Services
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending our law firm's 6th Annual Environmental & Energy Issues Summit in Newport, Rhode Island. Robinson+Cole’s Environmental and Energy Issues Summit brings industry…