Following the lead of @derektmuller.bsky.social, today’s post promotes some Substacks in the legal education space. Warning, the reward for reading good Substacks is more good Substacks to read. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/lega...

The Twelfth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at King’s College London from 13–16 July 2027. The deadline for proposals is September 1st! www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/dead...

Tuesday Tips provides links to some of the top contracts scholarship now available for download on SSRN. Lots of co-authored pieces this time, so too many authors to list individually. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/tues...

Touro Law School is hiring for its new FlexTime JD program in Great Falls, Montana. Classes on Sundays; asynchronous coursework during the week. They need people who can teach Torts, Civil Procedure, and Contracts. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/tour...

Today’s Friday Frivolity is an update on the fate of a piano that once belonged to Liberace. After a second trip to the First Circuit, the piano and its 10,000 rhinestones belongs to the Gibson Foundation. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/frid...

New today: @drhaward.bsky.social (below) has written a new book about consequential damages from a comparative (anglophone) perspective. He shares an overview on the blog today, and check out the image of the Mill Where It Happened on his book cover! www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/what...

For the third time this year, we have a post about faculty members fired for challenging their students in ways that made the students uncomfortable. I reflect a bit on the uses of confronting law students with fact patterns that make them uncomfortable. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/firs...

For those of you who haven’t had enough football (in American, soccer), we have happy news that, through the magic of contracts, Dani Rojas (Cristo Fernandez) is playing for the El Paso Locomotive www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/frid...

The Charleston School of Law is hiring for multiple positions, including contracts and sales. I taught at the College of Charleston for three years, so I can tell you, Charleston is lovely. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/hiri...

Some Friday Frivolity for you from Sid DeLong on the difficulty of understanding seemingly plain instructions in the modern world. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/sid-...

Once again, a state university has fired a non-tenured instructor because a student took offense to a course element and appealed to a politician for help. These are perilous times in the humanities, for instructors and administrators alike. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/indi...

SCOTUS ruled 6-3 last week against an implied right of action for rescission under the Investment Company Act, leading me to rhapsodize about my nostalgia for implied rights of action. Is this another post-Erie departure from the general law tradition? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/scot...

A contracts take on Landor: In short, if Spending Clause enactments give rise to only contractual obligations, then they come with a duty of good faith and fair dealing. States violate that duty through not training or overseeing agents. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/ther...

People don’t take promises seriously anymore. As Sid DeLong explains on the Blog today, you used to have to pay for breach with your flesh, your liberty, your life, or your immortal soul. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/frid...

Another guest post from Sid DeLong today. This one is about Joseph Williams' book _Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace_, on which Sid and I both relied when teaching legal writing. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/bad-...

#Caturday. He knows what inanition is. Why don’t you, Sam Ezersky? #SpellingBee

Taking a break from my break to bring word of a new Substack on arbitration from Tamar Meshel and a diverting, fun, and edifying post from @hoffprof.bsky.social on his Contracts’ Empire. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/subs...

Why isn’t this a basis fort an ethics complaint? The guy cannot represent the US in an action against his former client, can he?

California law requires arbitration of wrongful death claims if the decedent agreed to arbitrate medical malpractice claims. But the line between negligent medical care and negligent custodial care is hard to draw in 24-hour skilled nursing facilities. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/05/resi...

What do you get when you cross $5 million with a young man with access to gambling apps? Brendan Sorsby is just one victim of prediction markets, which are corrupt markets, bad for individuals, and a threat to national security that no ballroom can fix. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/05/texa...

Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for a filling with three dozen errors. Does AI really make legal work more efficient or is it just as costly to check AI-assisted research as it is to pay associates to do the work? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/sull...

2d Circuit holds that the NFL’s dispute resolution system, in which employment disputes are decided by the NFL Commissioner, are not “arbitrations” under the NFL because the Commissioner is not neutral. Cert. pending. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/seco...

Texas law allows damages on top of specific performance only if the additional damages are equitable. I was hoping that this case would clarify what equitable damages are, but they seem to be the same as damages available at law. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/texa...

My not-so-hot take on the @nytimes.com SCOTUS scoop: for those who’ve followed the shadow docket, the scoop itself contains few surprises. What it says about SCOTUS’s new NDA regime is more interesting than the substance of the reporting www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/a-ne...

Were jurors trolling Elon Musk by highlighting the number 420 on a trial exhibit in his securities fraud case or were they just making a joke that they thought he might appreciate? Does anything hinge on the answer to that question? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/frid...

Last week, Judge Lin granted Anthropic injunctive relief against the DoD and other agencies. A panel of the DC Circuit denied injunctive relief but granted expedited review. I think the panel misunderstands the nature of the relief sought. Whatcha think? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/upda...

I am pleased to spread the word that the 19th International Conference on Contracts will convene in Cleveland at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, March 19-20, 2027. SAVE THE DATE!!! www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/save...

We posted about prediction markets a few weeks ago. Now, we have an update via Ashley Splawinski on @donmoyn.bsky.social's Can We Still Govern Substack. It’s not pretty. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/a-de...

The Department of Defense breached its contract with Anthropic and then tried to destroy the company. Judge Rita Lin enjoined the government actions, finding violations of the 1A, DP, and the APA. Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/cont...

In a guest post today, Yehuda Adar and Efi Zemach provide a summary of their forthcoming article, Reliance as Promise. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/tues...