Doing It Wrong (Paul, Weiss) and Doing It Right (Rachel Cohen)

Each year, when I teach merchant status, I experience mixed emotions when I come upon the conflicting caselaw regarding the merchant status of farmers. Scott Burnham and James Brook, the authors of the Examples and Explanations book that I use,… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Periodically, we check in on the progress of various claims arising out of the COVID epidemic. One line of cases involves university students suing their schools for closing campuses in the Spring of 2020 and offering only partial reimbursements of… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Governments increasingly seem to favor pre-paid debit cards. I’m sure there are reasons, but I once received my state tax refund in the form of such a debit card, and it was highly inconvenient. Stores do not issue receipts letting… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

This is the fifth post in my series on Larry Di Matteo’s Principles of Contract Law and Theory (Principles). The aim is to call some attention to this book while using it to stimulate my thinking as I once again… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

This is a new chapter in fight over authors’ rights in digital age. Plaintiff textbook authors alleged that defendant McGraw Hill had breached its publishing agreement with them by ceasing or reducing revenues generated from McGraw Hill’s online platform that… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

I wrote last year about the case of Maura Finkelstein. Here is a lightly edited version of the story as we had it back then: Maura Finkelstein (left) was, until recently, a tenured anthropology professor at Muhlenberg College. She is… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More