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Arbitration clauses, prejudicial delays, and one justice’s contract-law “nightmare”

SCOTUSBlog

Before the Supreme Court, Morgan is arguing that courts cannot adopt special, arbitration-specific waiver standards: If state law normally does not require a showing of prejudice to establish waiver of a contractual right — and she argues Iowa law does not — courts also should not require prejudice before finding waiver in the arbitration context.

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Choice of law in commercial contracts and regulatory competition: new steps to be made by the EU?

Conflict of Laws

The recently published study titled ‘European Commercial Contract Law’, authored by Andrea Bertolini, addresses the theme of regulatory competition. It offers new policy recommendations to improve EU legal systems’ chances of being chosen as the law governing commercial contracts.

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Specific Performance of Contract : Enforcing Contractual Rights

LexForti

In this post, understand how Specific Performance of Contract can protect your contractual rights in India. This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of Specific Performance and its role in the enforcement of contracts. Is there a way to enforce the original terms of the contract? ’ What is Specific Performance?

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What Makes AI and Humans the Future of Contract Management

Cenza

Legal AI and ML platforms will perform fully automated contract review and extraction, or many will have you believe so that the human contract review process will be a thing of the past. The best of both worlds can be achieved only when the AI-based CLM platforms partner with trained, legal experts.

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Panama Supreme Court rules 20-year concession for Canada copper mine unconstitutional

JURIST

The law would have created a new 20-year contract for First Quantum’s Cobre Panamá mine. This comes after the contract was thrown into jeopardy when Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo announced last month that he would referendum to determine the fate of a contentious mining contract and placed a moratorium on new contracts.

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UK: Misrepresentation: Negligent And Innocent Statements In Contract Law - Andrew Jackson Solicitors

Mondaq

Some may become terms of the contract and others may have no legal effect, During pre-contractual negotiations, many things may be said in advertising, during discussions or in correspondence.

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Film Fridays – DGA Faces “Extremely Challenging” Contract Negotiations in 2023

The Hollywood Lawyer

DGA leaders said their upcoming contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers “promises to be an extremely challenging negotiating environment – one of the most difficult and complex we have faced in many years.” ” The guild’s current contract expires on June 30.