Boilerplate contracts have long fascinated legal scholars. But the focus has been largely on
consumer contracts, with the debate centered on the question of whether take-it-or-leave-it …

When a lawsuit has a connection to more than one jurisdiction, a judge called upon to
resolve the dispute must perform a conflict-of-laws analysis to determine which jurisdiction's …

In the 1990s, Sprint PCS, one of the leading telecommunications companies in the United
States, created a wireless affiliate program. Under the affiliate program, Sprint and its …

International transactions present unique legal risks. When a contract touches several
different nations, a party may not know where it will be called upon to defend a lawsuit or …

The textbook model of commercial contracts between sophisticated parties holds that terms
are proposed, negotiated and ultimately priced by the parties. Parties reach agreement on …

Carlton Gunn was angry. Years before, while working as an attorney in Washington, he had
purchased a long-term care insurance policy from Continental Casualty Company (" …

Contracts always present questions of interpretation. This is nothing new. One of contract
law's most important functions is to resolve interpretive problems created by the use of …

The traditional mode of contract analysis assumes a world in which contracting parties
choose, from among the universe of linguistic formulations, the precise terms that express …

In 2016, its economy in shambles and looking to defer payment on its debts, the Venezuelan
government of Nicolas Maduro proposed a multibillion dollar debt swap to holders of bonds …

Contracts frequently contain terms that are similar or identical to terms in other agreements
of a similar type. These terms are known as contract boilerplate. 1 Contract boilerplate …