Weekend Frivolity Top Ten Blog Posts of 2023

As we reach the end of another circuit around the sun, it is nice to scroll through the blog feed and be reminded of some of the memorable moments of the year that was.  Here are my favorite posts from the last year:

#10 Good Boi Expels Gas (and Fancy People) from First Class: the story of a charming dog and the people who sued the airline because they couldn’t abide dog farts and drool.

#9 Five Million Reasons to Love Unilateral Contracts: Mike Lindell tries to rig a contest and still loses!

#8 Can You Recover An Engagement Ring If You Are Already Married When You Proposed? In a highly unusual capacity case, a court finds that a man lacked the capacity to promise to marry a woman when he was already married to someone else.  His gift of the ring was thus unconditional, and his ex got to keep the ring after the two called off their nuptials.

#7 From Sid DeLong, Something About Nothing:  Inspired by Jens Haaning’s “Take the Money and Run” work of performance art, Sid DeLong contemplates the art of getting paid for doing nothing.

#6 Seth Barrett Tillman in Arbitration Dispute Over Who Won the US Senate in 2022: We had the joy of covering an arbitration case involving a real live law professor!

#5 The OceanGate Liability Waiver and Exculpatory Agreement: The world became briefly obsessed with liability waivers, and so did we — well, we kinda already were.

#4 The Art of the Steal and the Art of (Not) Paying Damages: Following up on earlier posts about Jens Haaning’s work, we cover the ensuing court case in which the museum attempts to recover its money.

#3 Sanctions and Warnings for Attorneys’ Use of ChatGPT: In what is sure to become a regular feature, we cover the first round of incidents involving attorneys relying on AI and getting called out for artificial ineptitude.

#2 Emoji as Acceptance: The semester started off very well, with a case about emojis in connection with formation and the Statute of Frauds.

And the #1 top blog post for 2023 is:

Actually a series of blog posts, Virtual Symposium: Mel Eisenberg and Contracts Law Scholarship:  numerous friends of the blog responded to the call with guest posts, and Mel followed up with a series of responses.  You can find links to all of the posts at the bottom of each post.