Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for July 22, 2025

We reported on this case back in May. The case was brought on behalf of a class of Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon’s terms of use provided that "any increase in subscription fee will not apply until your subscription is renewed.”… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

It is a great tragedy that there has never been a successful television series about contracts lawyering, akin to the innumerable televisions series about criminal law. My curiosity was piqued when I started watching The Burial, featuring Tommy Lee Jones… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Martha Ertman (right) provides an excellent review of Sabine Tsuruda’s recently published article, Race, Unconscionability, and Contractual Equality, I won’t try to summarize Professor Ertman’s summary. I just want to make two supplemental comments, one Professor Tsuruda’s take on statutory… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

In May Yonathan Arbel (left) and David Hoffman (below, right) posted Generative Interpretation in the NYU Law Review. When we commented on a draft here, we noted a striking finding. Louisiana courts had ruled that references to“floods” in insurance contracts… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Last year, we reported on a college football quarterback who left his team after three games, preserving his eligibility, after alleged oral promises of name, image, and likeness (NIL) payments went unfulfilled. Last month, my former student Chad Smith (right)… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Peter and Sut Fong, two brothers, opened a safe deposit box at a U.S. Bancorp (the Bank) branch in Sacramento in 2000. In 2021, for unknown reasons, the Bank drilled into the Fongs’ safe deposit box to discover its contents…. Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More