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For those of you who are still trying to decide whether or not to attend, it looks like a great conference, featuring two of our bloggers, Nancy Kim and Myanna Dellinger.
10th International Conference on Contracts
William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV
February 27 & 28, 2015
Preliminary Program
Fri. 2/27
8:15-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast (Moot Court Lobby)
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Announcements (Moot Court Auditorium)
9:00-10:45 Whose Contract Law Is It Anyway? (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: Dov Waisman
Danielle Hart, How Does Bargaining Power Affect Contract Litigation Outcomes?
Larry DiMatteo, How Private is Private Contract Law?
H.G. Prince, How Does the California Supreme Court’s Contracts Jurisprudence Relate to Its Ideological Composition?
Hila Keren, Whose Freedom of Contract?
Consent (or Lack Thereof) (BSL 102)
Chair: TBA
Shawn Bayern, Offer and Acceptance in Modern Contract Law: A Needless Concept
Chunlin Leonhard, Consent in Contract: A Dangerous Fiction
Kenneth Ching, What We Consent to When We Consent to Form Contracts: Market Price
Eric Zaks, Bonding and Contract Drafting: Paying a Premium for Foregoing Genuine Consent
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Contract Terms I (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: TBA
Royce Barondes, Frictions and the Persistence of Inferior Contract Terms
Mark Gergen, Privity’s Shadow: Exculpatory Terms in Extended Forms of Private Ordering
Joshua Silverstein, Using the West Digest System as a Data Collection and Coding Device for Empirical Legal Scholarship: Demonstrating the Method Via a Study of Contract Interpretation
Comparative and International I (BSL 102)
Chair: TBA
Mateja Djurovic, Europeanisation of Contract Law Through the Judicial Activity of the European Court of Justice
Glennys Spence, A Pound of Flesh: A Comparative Analysis of the Group of Companies Doctrine and the Alter Ego Theory in International Commercial Arbitration
Jane Winn, Contracting Out of the Nation State: The Role of Global Private Regulators
12:30-1:45 Lunch (Barrick Museum Garden)
1:45-3:30 Roundtable: Perspectives on the Restatement (Third) of the Law of Consumer Contracts (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: Omri Ben-Shahar (U. of Chicago)
Robin Kar (U. of Illinois)
Nancy Kim (California Western)
Gregory Klass (Georgetown)
David McGowan (U. of San Diego)
3:30-3:45 Break (Moot Court Lobby)
3:45-5:30 Consumer Protection (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: TBA
Susanne Augenhofer, Self-Regulation and the Interface of Consumer Protection and Corporate Governance
David Friedman, Addressing Fictitious Pricing: Discounting of Retail Goods and Deceptive Prior-Reference Pricing
Timothy Hall, Contractual Limitation of Personal Fitness and Health Data Tracking: An Empirical Analysis
Jim Hawkins, Are Bigger Companies Better for Low-Income Borrowers?: Evidence from Payday and Title Loan Advertisements
Performance & Enforcement (BSL 102)
Chair: TBA
Pamela Edwards, “The Best Interests of the League”: Contractual Limits of Sports Leagues Commissioners’ Powers to Discipline Team Owners
Orit Gan, The Justice Element of Promissory Estoppel
Victor Goldberg, Buffalo’s Field of Dreams: Kenford Co. v. Erie County
Jennifer Martin, Avoiding Unpleasant Surprises in Resales Under 2-706
6:00-9:00 Reception & Dinner (Barrick Museum Exhibition Hall)
Sat. 2/28
8:30-9:00 Breakfast (Moot Court Lobby)
9:00-10:30 Storytelling and Contracts (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: Keith Rowley
Lenora Ledwon, Bonds, Promises, and Contracts in the Narco-Western: Freedom of (and From) Contract in Breaking Bad
Deborah Post, Story Telling and Normative Analysis
Debora Threedy, Cooper on Contracts: Popular Culture and the Paradox of Relational Contracts
Comparative and International II (BSL 102)
Chair: TBA
Myanna Dellinger, Rethinking Force Majeure in U.S. and International Contracts Law
Larry DiMatteo, A Case Study in Comparative Contract Law: Late Acceptance, Right to Cure, and Anticipatory Repudiation in Common, Civil, and Chinese Contract Laws
Irina Sakharova, Finance Lease Contracts: International and Comparative Perspectives
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Digital Giants Gone Wild! (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: TBA
Michael Rustad & Thomas Koenig, Wolves of the World Wide Web: Reforming Social Media Provider’s Contracting Practices
Nancy Kim, Internet Giants as Quasi-Governmental Actors and the Limits of Contractual Consent
Joasia Luzak, Wanted: A Bigger Stick – On Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts with Online Service Providers
Sacred Cows (BSL 102)
Chair: TBA
Mark Burge, Thinking Outside the Four Corners of Contract Doctrine in the Legal Education Crisis
Victor Goldberg, Rethinking Jacob and Youngs v. Kent
Jeff Lipshaw, Does Contract Theory Matter?
12:15-1:45 Lunch (RAJ 4th Floor Faculty Lounge)
Keynote: Stewart Macaulay
Comments: Chuck Knapp
Peter Linzer
1:45-3:30 Roundtable: Perspectives on More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: Omri Ben-Shahar (U. of Chicago)
Susanne Augenhofer (Humboldt U.-Berlin)
Jeffrey Stempel (UNLV)
Stacey Tovino (UNLV)
TBA
3:30-3:45 Break (Moot Court Lobby)
3:45-5:15 Contract and Families (Moot Court Auditorium)
Chair: TBA
Erez Aloni, Mistaking Neoclassicism for Pluralism in Family Law
Christie Matthews, Contract Law, Race, and Intrafamilial Transactions
Contract Terms II (BSL 102)
Chair: TBA
Sid DeLong, Construction Contracts (N.B.: It’s not what you think)
Peter Gerhart, Good Faith Contract Performance and the Reasonable Person
Allen Kamp, UCC Interpretation versus Plain Meaning Interpretation: A Question of Purpose
5:15-5:30 Conference Wrap-Up (Moot Court Auditorium)