Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for January 7, 2025

When I was a practicing attorney, we had a case in which our client was sued by the fired CEO of one of its subsidiaries. The former CEO had managed to destroy the business in eighteen months, but his contract… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

We have been commenting regularly lately on what I have called arbitration clause bootstrapping and David Horton (right — updated but still youthful) has alternatively called Infinite Arbitration Clauses and Accidental Arbitration. There was the case of Disney invoking arbitration… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

In July 2021, the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (the Union) petitioned for a vote on whether it could represent the employees of Hudson Institute of Process Research Incorporated (Hudson), a legal outsourcing and staffing company that… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Each year, I hold a competition among my first-year students to see who can come up with the best original work of art in honor of Judge Benjamin Cardozo. Yesterday, OCU 2L J Badillo ended his reign as the third… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Just last month we celebrated the Cubs’ W over the owner of a rooftop seating venue across the street from storied Wrigley Field. After the post was drafted, the District Court more emphatically denied defendant Aidan Dunican’s motion for reconsideration…. Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

The last five years have been rich in mistake cases. In 2025, there was the N.C. Wyeth painting bought at a thrift shop for $4. In 2024, we brought news of a rare African mask sold in France for €150,… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More