Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for March 4, 2025

Still catching up on older cases. This one was decided in July. In City of Pharr, Texas v. Garcia, the court devoted very little time in its memorandum opinion on rehearing to the facts. Francisco E. Jimenez provides some background… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

The Longest Day: The Best Legal Fiction Writer in Congress Sidney W. DeLong (March 11, 2025). Some of you may not yet have noticed that on March 11, the Senate declared that March 11 would not end: “Each day for… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

This is the sevevnth 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

[Wait for it: There’s a pretty good visual joke at the end!] Marketable Titles Sidney W. DeLong The Author, upon hitting on the perfect title This Essay concerns one of the most important challenges faced by a legal scholar: how… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

This case fits in with our series on the contracts doctrine of mistake, addressed most recently here and here, but it is perhaps still more bizarre. On October 5, 2019, defendant Clearing House Estate Sales (CHES) opened bidding through Auction… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More

Joseph Ginarte founded a law firm, Ginarte LLP (the Firm), in 1982. In 1991, he took on a partner and entered into a partnership agreement that included a provision for arbitration. The Firm hired Michael Gallardo in 2003, and he… Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More