Reviewing Larry DiMatteo, Principles of Contract Law and Theory, Part XVI: Recap

Top Downloads For: Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal Recent Top Papers (60 days) As of: 22 Jun 2025 – 21 Aug 2025 Rank Paper Downloads 1. The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs Johannes Kruse Max Planck Institute… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

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

We’ve been trying to follow the work of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Back in March, we posted about DOGE’s somewhat mysterious claim that it was “cancelling” contracts and leases. As we noted, most parties cannot “cancel” a… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

As we’ve discussed previously here and here, the law does not like stranger-originated life insurance policies (STOLIs). Partly, it is just unseemly — like gambling on a life. Partly, there is concern that the originator of the policy will have… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Plaintiff Theraplant, LLC (Theraplant) cultivates marijuana. In February, 2020, a fire in its Flowering Room 2 destroyed nearly 1000 plants, and it took two months to repair the room, but in April Theraplant was able to transfer a new batch… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

We posted last year about Oklahoma’s scheme to allow for taxpayer-funded religious charter schools. The test case is St. Isidore, which describes itself as an instrument of the Catholic Church committed to the Church’s evangelizing mission. It was created as… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More