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ContractsProf Blog
New in Print: Books, Part III
Stefan Grundmann, et al. (eds.), The Organizational Contract: From Exchange to Long-Term Network Cooperation in European Contract Law (Ashgate 2013)This book introduces and develops the paradigm of the organisational contract…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Who Bears the Risk of Declining Prices During a CCRC Market Downturn?
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) utilize a variety of payment arrangements to attract potential residents. One option popular prior to the 2008 recession was a "100% refundable entrance fee" model,…
PropertyProf Blog
Kelly on The Right to Include
Dan Kelly (Notre Dame) has posted The Right to Include (Emory Law Journal) on SSRN: Here’s the abstract:Recent scholarship has created renewed interest in the “right to exclude.” Many contend…
The Faculty Lounge
Pari Pasu
Following up on my post from last February on Ben Chabot's and Mitu Gulti's "Santa Anna and His Black Eagle: The Origins of Pari Passu?," here's the latest on pari…
Law & Economics Prof Blog
Top Recent Downloads, L&E – Private Law, 4/25/14
By BDG
1394The Three Justifications for Piercing the Corporate Veil Jonathan R. Macey and Joshua Mitts Yale Law School and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Date posted to database: 19 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 7 Mar 20142334Will Ticket Scalpers Meet the…
TortsProf Blog
Rustad & Koenig on the Death of Tort by Fine Print Contract
...an article in the Corporate Crime Reporter on Mike Rustad and Tom Koenig's article reporting an empirical study of the content of typical "terms of use" of social network sites. …
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Social Media, Standard Form Contracts, and the Right to Sue
By Robin Effron
The New York Times has an interesting article today When "Liking" a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue. From the article:General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and…
ContractsProf Blog
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – AALS ANNUAL MEETING 2015
The AALS Contracts Section has issued its call for papers for the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. - please see below: CALL FOR PROPOSALSASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS (AALS)SECTION…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
SCOTUS Issues Preemption Decision
By Robin Effron
Lost in today's coverage of the campaign finance case might be the fact that SCOTUS has ruled on a preemption issue. In Northwest, Inc. v. Ginsberg, the Court found that…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Failure of Consideration and Promises to “Care for Grandma for the Rest of Her Life”
This semester I'm teaching Contracts, which always provides interesting opportunites to introduce "Elder Law" concerns in a traditional course.This week I offered a not-so-hypothetical fact pattern, where Grandmother deeds house to Grandchild,…