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 ...

Brian Jackson/Sun-Times Media Rahm Emanuel: The authority on contracts. After reading the Tribune‘s postelection editorial in which they expressed their orgasmic joy over Bruce Rauner’s gubernatorial ...

Legal precedent comes from court decisions where judges are asked to interpret the law, and once a court rules on an issue, legal precedent becomes the law. This means that legal precedent and ...

A federal appeals court ruled the contract with Danos was not covered by maritime law. Instead, Louisiana law applies, which blocks the indemnification clause Genesis wanted. The case involves a Danos ...