Topic
Digital Contracts
43 published works
ContractsProf Blog
Ticketmaster and Hidden Notice
A notice is supposed to be, well, noticeable. A hidden notice is an oxymoron. Unfortunately, the law of digital contracts seems to be a law of oxymorons. Another such oxymoronic…
Modern contract management blog
CLM Digital Shift 2020 – How to Play New COVID-19 Rules
By Olga Mack
COVID-19 has changed the way businesses everywhere must conduct deals. The pandemic has forced upon us the need for CLM software in order to create, design, and sign all legal…
Evisort
Why You Need a Digital Contracting Center of Excellence Program
By Danika Park
A few years ago we started noticing a trend among our new customers. In their first weeks of using Evisort, we’d field six or seven calls from the client asking…
Socially Aware Blog
Just Browsing: District Court Finds Browsewrap Agreement Enforceable
By Anthony M. Ramirez, Katherine DeVries
Courts continue to grapple with the enforceability of online agreements. While courts generally enforce clickwrap agreements—online agreements where users affirmatively show their acceptance after being presented with the terms, usually…
Law Questions Answered
Beyond Pen And Paper… Digital Contracts
QUESTION: WHY ARE COMPANIES STILL STRUGGLING WITH ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS 20 YEARS AFTER THE LAWS SAID THEY ARE VALID? ANSWER: PEOPLE HAVE DIFFICULTY UNLEARNING THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF RELIANCE…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Digital Currency App’s Electronic User Agreement Held Enforceable
In a recent blog post, we wrote about how the Second Circuit found the arbitration clause in a web service’s terms and conditions unenforceable because the user did not have…
ContractsProf Blog
Michael Malloy (Pacific McGeorge) – KCON Scholarship Spotlight
By Mark Burge
The conference is over but the scholarship lives on. This is one of a series of posts highlighting several KCON XII presenters who graciously provided me with abstracts or summaries…
ContractsProf Blog
Computerized Contracting
In times when everything seems to have to be fully automated and computerized, perhaps even the driving of our cars, might contract drafting and execution become fully computerized as well?Perhaps,…
ContractsProf Blog
Scholarship Spotlight: What We Buy When We ‘Buy Now’ (Aaron Perzanowski – Case Western & Chris Jay Hoofnagle – Cal-Berkeley)
By Mark Burge
Contracts in the digital age continue to raise novel issues of mutual assent and interpretation, and misunderstanding by individual users crosses over into consumer law as well. In What We…
Byte Back
On My Terms: The key to designing an enforceable digital agreement
By Emily Miller
In the Information Age, an increasing amount of data is communicated, stored, and shared electronically, and legal agreements are no exception. Digital agreements are more convenient, environmentally friendly, and are…