The conference starts on Friday, March 2d. There is a great lineup of speakers and stimulating
topics.
Of especial note, our esteemed colleague Professor Melvin Eisenburg will be the recipient of the 7th ICC Life Achievement Award. Professor Omri Ben Shahar will also receive an award for the best contracts paper published in 2011.
With the weatherman promising nice weather (sunny with highs of 63 and 68 on Friday and Saturday) and great food in store, it doesn't get much better than this. If an interlude in the sun with great food for scholars and practitioners of contracts law to mingle while doing what they love most: taking about contracts sounds good to you, well, its not too late to register - go to http://www.tjsl.edu/conferences/international-conference-on-contracts.
Sorry to say that I cannot attend this year, but sounds like fun!
- JSM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Can I pay a "reasonable price" please?
Sure, Article 2 applies to sales of goods. Sure, it provides a flexible approach to commercial transactions by facilitating deals where the parties have failed to provide all terms. Sure, open prices are filled with a "reasonable price." U.C.C. 2-305. I tell my students the virtues of the reasonable price as a saver of deals where the parties just never get around to deciding. After all, who could complain about paying a reasonable price and what seller would complain about receiving one?
So, here's a toast to the reasonable price. The price of the Friday night libation has surely gotten out of hand. Apparently, a Boston lawyer complained at a Cheesecake Factory about the price of a Margarita, which was not disclosed and the waitress could not provide the actual price. (See ABA Journal). This, of course, comes on the heels of the shocked restaurant patron who received a bill for a $275 spaghetti dinner in New York. (See, New York Times).
The sobering reality is that the Cheesecake Factory will now post prices in advance. A wonderful development for those who don't like to be shocked by the bill at the end of the evening. Otherwise, the reasonable price would seem to be all that is due.
- JSM
So, here's a toast to the reasonable price. The price of the Friday night libation has surely gotten out of hand. Apparently, a Boston lawyer complained at a Cheesecake Factory about the price of a Margarita, which was not disclosed and the waitress could not provide the actual price. (See ABA Journal). This, of course, comes on the heels of the shocked restaurant patron who received a bill for a $275 spaghetti dinner in New York. (See, New York Times).
The sobering reality is that the Cheesecake Factory will now post prices in advance. A wonderful development for those who don't like to be shocked by the bill at the end of the evening. Otherwise, the reasonable price would seem to be all that is due.
- JSM
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