ContractsProf Blog
Covers news, cases, legal education and limericks mainly relating to the realm of contracts.
Author: Franklin G. Snyder, a law professor at Texas Wesleyan University Law School is the primary editor of ContractsProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professors Blog Network. Also contributing to the blog: Miriam A. Cherry, an associate professor of the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law; Meredith R. Miller, an assistant professor at Touro Law Center; Keith A. Rowley, a professor at University of Nevada-Las Vegas; and D. A. Jeremy Telman, an assistant professor at Valparaiso University Law School.
Blawg Related Categories: Contracts • Law Professors • Texas Wesleyan University • Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center • University of Minnesota • University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law • University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law • Valparaiso University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from ContractsProf Blog
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Call for Proposals
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…
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Now in Print
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,…
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Mid-Year Legislative Update
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:…
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The Coen Brothers on Studio Contracts
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.…
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Now in Print
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…
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ALI Principles of the Law of Software Contracts
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…
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Call for Proposals
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…
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Now in Print
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). Kenneth M. Casebeer, Of Service Workers, Contracting Out, Joint Employment,…
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Plaudits for (Mostly Dead) Contracts Scholars
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…
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Plaudits for (Living) Contracts Professors
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…