In this chapter, we put forth a case study of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. We detail the legal and contractual issues that arose as the parties...
This Essay expounds on the outsized role of private law in governing ownership of new technologies and data. As scholars lament gaps between law and...
Scores of lawsuits have pushed retirement plan sponsors to shorter, easier-to-navigate menus, but – as Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis argue in this work –...
This law school casebook provides a detailed examination of secured transactions in personal property in both the commercial and consumer context. The...
The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument on April 26 in Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, a major property rights case...
Public nuisance has lived many lives. A centuries-old doctrine defined as an unreasonable interference with a right common to the public, it is...
Different areas of transactional practice, such as M&A or high yield bonds and sovereign bonds, vary in terms of the degree to which they are...
Bankruptcy offers a fresh start that frees individuals from crushing debt burdens. Many insolvent Americans are, however, simply too poor to afford...
Imagine this scenario: A patron shows a reference librarian a letter from an attorney representing the county and asks, “What law authorizes the...
The United States acquired its first overseas territory—the island of Navassa, near Haiti—by conceptualizing it as a kind of property to be owned...
Violations of intimate privacy can be never ending. As long as nonconsensual pornography and deepfake sex videos remain online, privacy violations...
Who is the intended audience of a contract? A court, who may be called upon to resolve a dispute, is one audience. Another is commercial communities...
The supply of human organs for transplantation might seem an unlikely place to begin thinking about entrepreneurship. After all, there is no...
The requirement of harm has significantly impeded the enforcement of privacy law. In most tort and contract cases, plaintiffs must establish that they...
The protection of intimate privacy isn’t at odds with free expression. At times, we prioritize one value over the other, but, more often, intimate...
The essential road map for understanding—and defending—your right to privacy in the twenty-first century.
Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives...
Privacy violations are destructive, no matter the perpetrator, but governmental privacy violations can cast a particularly long and destructive shadow...
