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ContractsProf Blog
Worst “The Ethicist” Column Ever?
In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, a reader posed the Wood v. Boynton dilemma for the Times "The Ethicist." Chuck Klosterman, as an ethical rather than a legal question. The context…
Washington Energy Report
Federal Circuit Rules that Interior Breached Precedent Agreement with Rockies Express Pipeline
On September 13, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) held that the Department of Interior (“Interior”) breached its 2006 precedent agreement (“Precedent Agreement”) with…
ContractsProf Blog
Contracts Conundrum in Breaking Bad?
*******SPOILER ALERTIF YOU ARE NOT UP-TO-DATE ON BREAKING BAD EPISODES,READ NO FURTHER******Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) [Photograph by Gage Skidmore]If you've been watching Breaking Bad, you will recall that Walt entered…
ContractsProf Blog
A Win for Homeowners in the Ninth Circuit
In Corvello v. Wells Fargo Bank, the issue before the Ninth Circuit was whether Wells Fargo was contractually obligated under the Federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) to offer plaintiffs…
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Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay, Post VIII: Gordon Smith
This is the eighth in a series of posts in our online symposium on the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay. More about the online symposium can be found here. More information…
PropertyProf Blog
Boyack on Freedom of Contract and the Endangered Right to Transfer
By propertyprof
Andrea Boyack (Washburn) has posted Freedom of Contract and the Endangered Right to Transfer on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Private community restrictions on property transfer deserve closer scrutiny by the courts…
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Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay, Post V: Gillian Hadfield
This is the fifth in a series of posts in our online symposium on the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay. More about the online symposium can be found here. More information…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Hell or high water deals
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
What better way to end the summer and ring in a new academic year (just around the corner), than to post another of this great series of transaction videos by…
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Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay: The First Week’s Contributors
We begin our online symposium inspired by Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay: On the Empirical and the Lyrical (Jean Braucher, John Kidwell, and William C. Whitford, eds., Hart Publishing 2013) with four…