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Richard Schragger (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted The Nature of Cities (NYU Environmental Law Journal) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This comment on Katrina Wyman and Danielle Spiegel-Feld’s new book, Local Greens: Cities and Twenty-first Century Environmental Problems, argues that cities are a cause of and solution to many environmental problems, that…
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Enrico Baffi (Guglielmo Marconi University) has posted To Provide for Damages Is Not to Authorize: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Tort Law in Italy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines whether Italian tort law can properly be described through the liability rule model developed by Calabresi and Melamed. It argues that the conventional…
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Mursal Maulana (Universitas Padjadjaran), Jani Purnawanty (Airlangga University), Rafan Darodjat (Universitas Padjadjaran), Meliesa Permatahati (Universitas Padjadjaran), and Michael Wolff (University of Canterbury) have posted The Paradigm Shift in Contract Interpretation: A Comparative Analysis of Indonesia, New Zealand, the CISG, and the UPICC (7 Indonesia Private Law Review 1 (2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Contract…
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Michael Celone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)), Sean McGregor, Mosi Secret, Noga Bregman, Bekhzodkhon Alikhanov, and Eduardo Mignot have posted Architecting Candor: Products Liability and AI Incident Knowledge Governance on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) firms need incident knowledge to improve safety, yet the act of documenting that knowledge can increase litigation risk.…
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Hung Chi Chen (Peacemaker Law Firm) has posted The Unilateral Contract Fallacy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The conventional account of unilateral contracts treats completed performance as the moment of acceptance. That formulation appears simple, but it compresses three distinct questions into a single event: when the offeree objectively assents to the proposed exchange, whether…
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Lee J. Strang (Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society; Ohio State University (OSU) – Michael E. Moritz College of Law) and Christopher R. Green (Ohio State University (OSU)) have posted The Declaration of Independence’s Continuing Allure as Constitutional Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Like most Americans, we have always had a high opinion…
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Erik S. Knutsen (Queen’s University Faculty of Law) has posted What to Foresee: The Boundaries of Remoteness in Canadian Negligence Law (57 The Advocates’ Quarterly, forthcoming 2027) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Under Canadian negligence law, what does a defendant have to foresee in order to be found liable for a breach of the standard…
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Colleen Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Bill Watson (University of Illinois College of Law) have posted When Does the Government Follow the Law? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The rule of law in the United States and in countries around the world is currently under stress. But diagnosing that stress and charting possible…
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Jennifer E. Sturiale (Delaware Law School) has posted Condemning Monopoly (79 Baylor Law Review, forthcoming 2027) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Monopoly is harmful. But under U.S. antitrust law, only monopoly acquired or maintained by exclusionary conduct is unlawful. At the same time, the U.S. Constitution permits property to be taken for “public use” as…
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Rod Thomas (Auckland University of Technology, Faculty of Business & Law) has posted Māori Customary Rights over Crown and Torrens Land – Time for a Rethink on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The release of the recent New Zealand Court of Appeal judgment in March 2026 in Mercury NZ Ltd v Māori Land Court reiterated the…