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Self-correcting contracts?
Note: This is the fourth of six blog posts in which we review Nate Oman’s new book The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundation of Contract Law. After tackling the legal doctrine of consideration in Chapter 5 (see … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Law, Literature, Philosophy
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Class No. 9 (meet the interns)
Welcome back from Spring Break! For our next class, we’re going to go back in time, back to the summer of ’04. That’s when Mark Zuckerberg relocated his new company to Northern California and brought along Facebook’s first two interns, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Law
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The superfluous legal doctrine of consideration?
Note: This is the third of a series of blog posts in which we review Nate Oman’s new book The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundation of Contract Law. As we mentioned in a previous post, Part I … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Law, Literature
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Morality distribution channels
Note: This is the second of several blog posts in which we review The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundation of Contract Law, by Nathan B. Oman. In our previous post, we introduced Nate Oman’s book on “The … Continue reading
Markets and morality (part 1)
Note: This is the first of six blog posts in which we review Nathan B. Oman’s book The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundation of Contract Law, University of Chicago Press (2016). Nate Oman begins his beautiful book … Continue reading
Spring break reading list
Here is what we are reading over our spring break: 1. Peter Thiel (with Blake Masters), Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future. We teach business law and are currently writing several chapters of a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bayesian Reasoning, Economics, Ethics, Law
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Product placement 101
Matt Thomas just brought this beautiful TV ad to our attention via his blog. The ad in question is composed of a series of movie scenes featuring the iconic Rolex watch. (In several of these classic scenes, the actors actually refer to the … Continue reading
Posted in Deception, Ethics, Law
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Class No. 7 (Right and Wrong)
Thus far this semester, we have studied sources of law as well as three major areas of private law: contracts, torts, and property. In our next class, by contrast, we will focus on the extralegal domains of ethics and morality: … Continue reading
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Class No. 6 (The Law of Ideas)
During the previous two weeks, we have surveyed two major areas of business law: contracts and torts. In summary, the law of contracts tells us when our promises are legally enforceable, while the law of torts tells us when we … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Law, Web/Tech
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Why are abstracts of law review articles so damn long?
Years ago, we blogged on the state of legal scholarship by posing the following question: why are modern law reviews so dull, tedious, and boring? The problem is that most law review articles today are way too long and have … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bayesian Reasoning, Game Theory, Law
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prior probability 