Negotiable Instruments, Payments, and Credits

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...

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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...

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The requirement of harm has significantly impeded the enforcement of privacy law. In most tort and contract cases, plaintiffs must establish that they...

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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...