The Law School held its annual Coase Lecture on February 10, drawing students, faculty, and other guests into a packed auditorium for a tradition that began in 1992. This year’s lecture, titled, “What ...

It is widely but incorrectly believed that commercially sophisticated parties are free to make whatever contracts they choose. Contracts contain a “procedural” part and a “substantive” part. The ...

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 ...

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 ...