Contracts' Empire
Dave HoffmanA substack about how technological change has supercharged contracts' role in our lives, and what if anything to do about it.
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Hunting for Fossils in M&A Agreements
Mitu Gulati, Bob Scott and Steve Choi’s new book on Contract Hazards: Lawyers and Their Landmines is great fun. As a piece of craft, the manuscript is delightful to read, and it’s about a puzzle that’s incredibly economically important. Bas...
Cheap Compute, Multiplying Contract Disputes
Last week I described the AI-mediated consumer dispute equilibrium as an arms race that wastefully redistributes surplus. A reader’s follow-up question pushed me to think harder about where I ended up.1
I argued that firms and consumers ar...
The Decline (and Fall) of Contracts' Empire?
This Substack has described an imperialist vision of contracting’s role in our lives: more written deals, controlling a widening gyre of social relationships, enforced more or less automatically. And, looking backward, it’s the case that co...
Agentic...Zombies?
James Toomey, who teaches contracts at Iowa, has a forthcoming Harvard JOLT article called Zombies, AI, and the “Objective” Theory of Contracts. I read it recently and want to recommend it. It’s short, funny, and takes a piece of canonical...
"Fight the Empire!" Pennsylvania's Arbitration Resistance Cadres
In March 2019, Shannon Chilutti, who uses a wheelchair, took an Uber home from a medical appointment in Philadelphia. The driver, according to her later lawsuit, took an abrupt left turn without securing her seatbelt, despite her requests f...
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Dave Hoffman is the William A. Schnader Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. He focuses his research and teaching on contract law.
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