HeyJaredContracts' Empire
A substack about how technological change has supercharged contracts' role in our lives, and what if anything to do about it.
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How Sticky Are “Adhesive” Contracts Anyway? (opens the original)
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The contracts academy holds a few core beliefs. Obscurity there is in Judge Cardozo's opinions, and a syntax instinct with perversity. Yet the classroom has found them salutary.The platonic contract prototype looks like two real humans shaking hands over a paper document they wrote after dickering, ideally about an agricultural product. Finally, you can’t bargain about the terms in form contracts. Being contracts of adhesion, they stick to you.There’s an oft-told contract professor version of a
Philadelphia Leases are Chock Full of Unenforceable Terms. Why? (opens the original)
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[This is the second essay in a series about the natural history of Philadelphia residential leases. It builds on an article I wrote with </sp
Who Wrote Your Lease? (opens the original)
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A few years ago, Anton Strezhnev and decided to write about residential leases. Our paper, Leases as Forms, took roughly 170,000 leases that Philadelphia landlords over a had filed in support of eviction cases over the first two decades of the century and tried to figure out where they came from.We found that leases generally are forms — templates that a landlord adopts more
Dignity Used to Matter to Contract Law (opens the original)
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An inescapable fact of modern life is that everywhere we look, written contracts stare back. If you used a public or institutional wifi to read this, there was a TOU. So too if you ubered out to eat or got delivery, streamed entertainment or went to the movies, read a book on your Kindle, asked ChatGPT a question, or signed your kid up for fall soccer. For essentially every activity that’s not just sitting in a public park and meditating you are almost certainly going to have to click to agree t
A Love Letter to M&A Practice in Delaware's Court of Chancery (opens the original)
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I have a new paper out, with Cathy Hwang, Matt Jennejohn, and Luiza Pedroso . Feeling great about the title: Mergers & Arbitrations. Otherwise, I’d love your feedback.<a class="button primary" href="https://profhoffman.substack.com/p/mergers-and-arbitrations/comme
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