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Behavioral Economics and Peevyhouse

Posted on September 01, 2009
The Second in a Series of Posts by: Guest Blogger, Alan White The Peevyhouse case offers all sorts of possibilities for law and economics discussions of the traditional and behavioral varieties, a few of which we were able to touch...

Contracts Limerick of the Week: Lefkowitz

Posted on August 31, 2009
I am teaching Lefkowitz v. Great Minneapolis Surplus Store for the first time this year. I don't know why this case has fallen out of the casebooks; I really like it. I also teach Izadi v. Machado Ford, Inc. (about...

Is Breach of Contract a Good Use of Taxpayer Dollars?

Posted on August 31, 2009
LexCH.com, your source for Dawson and Gosper County News, brings this report from Hall County (which actually seems a bit out of their jurisdiction): the County Board of Supervisors has decided to cut funding to their local bookmobile, abruptly electing...

Another Blood Contract

Posted on August 28, 2009
We reported earlier this year about a contract written in blood. In that case, Plaintiff Kim opened his appellate brief with the statement, "Blood may be thicker than water, but here it's far weightier than a peppercorn." Both at the...

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The First Week: A Hypothetical

Posted on August 26, 2009
As I indicated in my last post, on the first day of class, I discuss with my students a case, Ray v. William G. Eurice Bros., in which a party is held to the terms of a contract signed by...

"Roxanne's Revenge": A PhD on Warner Music [File This In: Awesome Contracts Stories]

Posted on August 25, 2009
As Gawker tells it: Heartwarming story of the day: Back in the 80s, Warner Music tossed a clause in then-teenage rapper Roxanne Shante's contract saying they'd pay for her education for life. So she got a psychology Ph.D from Cornell....

Now in Print

Posted on August 24, 2009
Kristen David Adams, Promise Enforcement in Mortgage Lending: How U.S. Borrowers and Lenders Can See Themselves as Part of a Shared Goal, 28 Rev. Banking & Fin. L. 507 (2009). Henry Deeb Gabriel, The Advantages of Soft Law in International...

Timeless Topics: Insects and Real Estate Contracts

Posted on August 24, 2009
Bed bugs! From the New York Times: According to the law, sellers and their brokers must acknowledge a problem if asked. But conflicts of interest aside, neither can be expected to know whether an infestation exists elsewhere in the building....

Crocs Settles Breach of Contract Suit with NothinZ-Producer Australia Unlimited, inc.

Posted on August 21, 2009
Here we have a number of variations on everyone's favorite form of ethylene vinyl acetate footware, Crocs. However, despite the fact that you can decorate your Crocs with flowers and peace signs, in the litigation context, it is apparently not...

On Paris, Zsa Zsa, 1988 and Alternative Measures of Damages

Posted on August 21, 2009
As summer wanes and 1L orientation draws to a close, it is part of the sweet rhythm of academia that a colleague inevitably says something like: "every year, they get younger." I'll admit, this year, I was the one who...

Judge Denies $8.3+ million sought from Paris Hilton for Movie Flop

Posted on August 19, 2009
Not too surprisingly, the film ?Pledge This!,? a sorority comedy starring Paris Hilton, bombed. The film?s investors sued Hilton for over $8.3 million, alleging that Hilton breached her contract by failing to promote the movie, and thereby causing it to...

Starting with Intent to Enter Legal Relations [or Why I Don't Start with Remedies]

Posted on August 18, 2009
In his first post as guest blogger, Alan White explained his reasons for starting with Peevyhouse. Alan's arguments were enough to persuade me to move Peevyhouse into the number 2 spot, but I try to ease the students into the...

Alan White: Teaching Peevyhouse First

Posted on August 17, 2009
The first in a series of posts by guest blogger, Alan White I was fortunate during my transition from practice to teaching to have had the wise counsel of several experienced contracts teachers, and as it happened they were all...

Welcome, Alan White!!

Posted on August 17, 2009
I am pleased to welcome to the blog my friend and colleague, Alan White. Avid fans of the blog might think that name sounds familiar. And sure enough, we have had reason to mention Professor White's scholarship previously on this...

Another Take on the Van Halen "No Brown M&M's Rider"

Posted on August 17, 2009
Perhaps the most famous contract in rock history is Van Halen?s 1982 World Tour rider. It contains the legendary requirement that the band be provided with a bowl of M&M?s in the dressing room, with all brown M&M?s removed from...

At Best Buy, Too Good To Be True

Posted on August 17, 2009
Courtesy of Best Buy (via CNN), here's a nice lesson on the objective theory and the doctrine of mistake: Early Wednesday morning, BestBuy.com listed a 52-inch Samsung HDTV for $9.99 -- a savings of more than $1600. As customers jumped...

Save the Dates: February 27-28, 2010

Posted on July 30, 2009
Having skipped 2009 because of scheduling conflicts at the intended host school, UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law is planning to host the Fifth International Contracts Conference (or its likeness) on February 27 and 28, 2010. More details and...

Now in Print

Posted on July 30, 2009
Shmuel I. Becher, A "Fair Contracts" Approval Mechanism: Reconciling Consumer Contracts and Conventional Contract Law, 42 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 747 (2009). Amelia H. Boss, The Evolution of Commercial Law Norms: Lessons to be Learned from Electronic Commerce, 34 Brook...

Now in Print

Posted on July 17, 2009
Sarah Abramowicz, Childhood and the Limits of Contract, 21 Yale J.L. & Human. 37 (2009). Catherine Ascani, Casenote, Deal or No Deal: It's a Deal in Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc. v. Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County,...

Call for Proposals

Posted on July 03, 2009
Call for Proposals AALS Section on Contracts New Approaches to Teaching Contracts: A ?Teach-In? 2010 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana The Section on Contracts solicits proposals for its Annual Meeting program, New Approaches to Teaching Contracts: A ?Teach-In,? scheduled...

Now in Print

Posted on July 02, 2009
J. Edward Allen, Comment, Insurance Carriers v. Construction Industry: A Texas-sized Showdown to Come? A Closer Look at the Implications of Lamar Homes, 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 505 (2009). Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, An Information Theory of Willful....

Mid-Year Legislative Update

Posted on July 01, 2009
With most state legislatures having concluded their business for the year, here is the 2009 mid-year legislative update. Revised Article 1 As of January 1, 2009, Revised Article 1 was in effect in thirty-four states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,...

The Coen Brothers on Studio Contracts

Posted on June 23, 2009
I recently watched Barton Fink for the first time in more than a decade and the following scene reminded me of casebook staple Locke v. Warner Brothers, Inc., 66 Cal. Rptr. 2d 921 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997), in which the...

Now in Print

Posted on June 19, 2009
Rachel S. Arnow-Richman, Employment as Transaction, 39 Seton Hall L. Rev. 447(2009). Allen Blair, A Matter of Trust: Should No-Reliance Clauses Bar Claims for Fraudulent Inducement of Contract?, 92 Marq. L. Rev. 423 (2009). Ian Brereton, Note, The Beginning of...

ALI Principles of the Law of Software Contracts

Posted on June 19, 2009
Speaking of the recently-approved Principles of the Law of Software Contracts (the subject of our sister section's call for proposals below), here's an overview and remarks from Reporter Bob Hillman for the benefit of those who have not already read....

Call for Proposals

Posted on May 29, 2009
Call for Proposals AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law ?The Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes of Article 2B and UCITA?? 2010 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana The Executive Committee...

Now in Print

Posted on May 29, 2009
M. Neil Browne & Jennifer Coon, The Impact of Market Ideology on Transnational Contract Law, 30 Loy. L.A. Int?l & Comp. L. Rev. 91 (2008). KennethM. Casebeer, Of Service Workers, Contracting Out, Joint Employment, Legal Consciousness, and the University of...

Plaudits for (Mostly Dead) Contracts Scholars

Posted on May 20, 2009
Also appearing recently on Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: the results of a poll of the blog's readers to name The Most Important Legal Thinkers in American Law of the Past Century. The poll and the results were both skewed...

Plaudits for (Living) Contracts Professors

Posted on May 15, 2009
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, a reliable source of information about moving and shaking in legal academia, reported yesterday that Contracts professor and current dean of the Seattle University School of Law Kellye Testy will become the new dean at...

A Lesson in Contract Drafting to Trump All Others

Posted on May 14, 2009
What is the drafting lesson to trump all others? The usual: one size does not fit all. AmLaw Daily reports that Trump Corporation leases space in one of the co-op buildings it had built in New York in the 1980's....

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