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Familiarity with contract law is especially critical for small-business sole proprietors and partnerships. Unlike in a limited liability company or corporation, a signed contract legally binds both ...

Identify the purpose of the transaction, which dictates its structure. Determine whether the transaction: involves the provision of goods (for more information, see Sale of Goods Agreement (Pro-Buyer) ...

Learn about contracts from Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, one of the world's leading authorities on contract law. Contracts are promises that the law will enforce. But when will the law refuse ...

For some years now, Professor Avery Katz has taught first-year contracts from a client-centered perspective that emphasizes how the rules of contract law can be used to promote the purposes of ...

Tuesday’s argument in Great Lakes Insurance v. Raiders Retreat Realty offers a breather between the divisive disputes about the CFPB and voting rights topping the headlines at the advent of the ...

Contracts play an important role in day-to-day business operations and drive economic activity across the globe. And when one party to a contract fails to live up to its obligations, the other party ...

Smart contracts indubitably fall subject to private international law, a professor of Private International Law at Germany’s Friedrich Schiller University has argued. Blockchain-based smart contracts ...