The Shadow Terms: Contract Procedure and Unilateral Amendments
For decades, courts and commentators have debated the normative implications of contract procedure. Conservatives argue that mandatory arbitration clauses reduce the burden on the judicial system and that class arbitration waivers, choice-of-law...
The Many Faces of Promissory Estoppel: An Empirical Analysis Under the Restatement (Second) of Contracts
This Article examines more than three hundred promissory estoppel cases decided between January 1, 1981, when the Restatement (Second) of Contracts was published, and January 1, 2008, when research for this project began, to explore the manner in...
Portraits of Resistance: Lawyer Responses to Unjust Proceedings
This Article considers a question rarely addressed: What is the role of the lawyer in a manifestly unjust procedural regime? Many excellent studies have considered the role of the judge in unjust regimes, but the lawyer’s role has been largely...
A “Standard Clause Analysis” of the Frustration Doctrine and the Material Adverse Change Clause
In the darkest depths of a corporate merger agreement lies the MAC clause, a term that permits the acquirer to walk away from a transaction if, between signing and closing, the target company experiences a “Material Adverse Change.” Multibillion...
Coercive Discovery and the First Amendment: Towards a Heightened Discoverability Standard
This Comment addresses whether the First Amendment restricts a litigant’s or the government’s ability to compel disclosure of information about protected First Amendment activities. In evaluating whether such speech-related information may be...