Friday Frivolity: Top Ten Posts of 2025!

Here is a link to last year’s Top Ten Posts.

Here is the link to the Top Ten Posts of 2023.

Because we have moved to a new platform, none of the links in the old posts work, but you can find them if you are curious by using the search feature within the blog. Unfortunately, search engines cannot (yet?) find old posts, so you have to go to the blog and use our internal search engine to find specific posts or posts on specific topics.

Anyhoo, here are our top posts from 2025. See you in the new year!

10. AmEx Tries to Pull a Samsung to Avoid Mass Arbitration, but It Ain’t Got the Rizz: An attempt to avoid mass arbitration by refusing to pay arbitration fees fails to persuade a Rhode Island District Court.

9. Fun with Terms of Service, from John Coyle and the Transnational Litigation Blog; John Coyle provides his annual update on Microsoft’s comically problematic terms of service.

8. Big Mass Arbitration Decision from the Ninth Circuit: Court agrees that there are four grounds for holding the arbitration agreement substantively unconscionable and the test for procedural unconscionability is also met.

7. The ContractsProf Blog Vlog #4: Employment Law with Rachel Arnow-Richman: A two-part video conversation on employment law featuring Rachel Arnow-Richman, Dan Barnhizer, and me.

6. The ContractsProfs Blog Vlog, Contracts Stuff: Discussions with Casebook Authors: I interview multiple ContractsProfs about why they became casebook authors and what makes their casebooks unique.

5. Uber Eats Order Leads to Compelled Arbitration After Uber Car Accident: Parents learn the hard way of the dangers of letting your teen use your phone to order a pizza.

4. Another Fact Pattern on Mistake: The Harvard Magna Carta: This time it is the story of Harvard’s purchase in the 1940s of one of the few extant thirteenth-century copies of Magna Carta for $27.50 (not adjusted for inflation).

3. Sid DeLong on How Students Should Read Contracts Cases: A great reminder which I find myself re-reading periodically to make sure I am doing this thing right.

2. Friday Frivolity: A Mansion for a Peppercorn?!? Oh, Those Royals! and Continued Fallout from the Royal Lodge Lease to the Andrew Formerly Known as Prince: Two posts on a Royal Family eviction.

And the #1 post of 2025 is . . .

1. KCON XVIII Call for Papers! And the deadline for submissions has been extended to January 5th! You can find the link for submissions, registration, and hotels here.

A few honorable mentions . . .

Sid DeLong, Younger on Cross-Examination: Wonderful general training, not specific to contracts litigation.

Revenge Lawsuit over Repossession of a Car: I can’t believe this worked — shared with me by a former student.

Guest Post: Gregory Duhl on Introducing AI Tools in the First-Year Contracts Course: ICYMI, Greg Duhl has done incredible work re-imagining the first-year contracts course to train the next generation of lawyers on how to improve their work product with AI assistance.