Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler | May 16, 2019 | Consumer Contracts
Twenty-three State Attorneys General circulated a letter urging Members to withhold support from the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts. The criticism expressed in the AGs’ letter is founded on a misunderstanding of the rules in the draft Restatement.The AGs’...
Omri Ben-Shahar and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler | April 16, 2019 | Consumer Contracts
Consumer contracts are everywhere. The number of contracts you enter into today may surprise you. Most of the contracts you enter into no longer involve a pen and paper. Purchasing a morning coffee, visiting a website, or scheduling a delivery are just a few daily...
Steven O. Weise | April 5, 2019 | Consumer Contracts
Last fall, the ALI Council approved Council Draft No. 5 of the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts, for submission to the members at the ALI Annual Meeting in May 2019, subject to the discussion at the Council meeting and the usual editorial prerogatives. The...
Steven O. Weise | March 27, 2019 | Consumer Contracts
This article was originally posted on Notice & Comment.“Empiricism and Privacy Policies in the Restatement of Consumer Contract Law” (Empiricism) asks the wrong question and takes the wrong approach to answering that question. A second article in same issue of the...
Lauren Klosinski | December 13, 2018 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Consumer Contracts, Policing, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
During its meeting in New York City on October 18 and 19, the ALI Council reviewed drafts for seven Institute projects. Drafts or portions of drafts for six projects received Council approval, subject to the meeting discussion and to the usual prerogative to make...
Lauren Klosinski | August 17, 2018 | Consumer Contracts
In the defining decision, Cullilane v. Uber Technologies, the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s grant of Uber Technologies’s motion to compel arbitration and dismiss the complaint of a putative class action brought by users of Uber’s...
