Property rights and contract law are two of our most basic legal categories. Many legal
scholars describe what makes them different; this Article describes how they work together …

Markets are social institutions that facilitate exchange transactions. Therefore, they require a
regime of freedom to exchange-a contract regime. Markets can be made more efficient by …

It is becoming possible for owners of intellectual property in digital form to use technological
protection instead of, or in addition to, copyright to control the use of their property. Professor …

To the uninitiated, transaction costs are often mysterious at best and dubious at worst. Even
among economists who use the term often, there are misunderstandings as to what …

This Article examines the-symbiotic relationship between copyright and contract law. The
intellectual property bargain, or the delicate balance that allegedly exists in current …

Contracts play a dual-and dueling-role in trade secret law. On the one hand, non-disclosure
contracts serve an important evidentiay role, helping owners prove key elements of a trade …

Modern information technology changes not only how commercial transactions occur, but
also more fundamentally the subject matter of commerce itself.'It creates new products …

Margaret Jane Radin's paper3 discusses the ways modem technologies have prompted
new thinking within and about property, and the way the legal response has failed to take …

There is perpetual tension in trade secret law over the breadth of the information a creative
employee can freely take from job to job. The court that determines the metes and bounds of …

INTRODUCTION The foundation for the American patent system is purely economic. The
entire system stems from a constitutional grant of power to Congress to promote the useful …