In Contract Law class, you learn about the formation of a contract; problems of offer and acceptance; consideration; the question of contract breach; damages and remedies for a breach.
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Juliet Kostritsky teaches contracts, sales, advanced contracts, law and business, and commercial paper. She joined the law school in 1984 after practicing in New York with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
Kostritsky's most recent article “The Law and Economics of Norms” appears at: 48 Texas Journal of International Law 465 (2013). She presented the solicited paper at a conference, “Is there Such a Thing as Custom in Modern European Law,” at the University of Texas School of Law in April 2012. In 2011, she presented “Contract Interpretation: Judicial Rule Not Party Choice” in the United Kingdom at Sheffield at a conference sponsored by the Society of Legal Scholars Symposium. Two other recent articles include: “Contract as Promise and Contract Interpretation,” solicited for the Suffolk Law School Symposium dedicated to Charles Fried (45 Suffolk Law Review 873 (2012)), and “Interpretive Risk and Contract Interpretation: A Suggested Approach for Maximizing Value.”
Her article “Uncertainty, Reliance, Preliminary Negotiations and the Hold Up Problem” was accepted for presentation by the American Law & Economics Association and presented at ALEA’s annual meeting May 16-17, 2008, 91 SMU Law Review 1377 (2008). Her article "Plain Meaning vs. Broad Interpretation: How the Risk of Opportunism Defeats a Unitary Default Rule for Interpretation" was accepted by the American Law and Economics Association and presented paper at Harvard Law School on May 6, 2007; it was published in the Kentucky Law Journal.
Another paper was solicited for a symposium on “Freedom from Contract” sponsored by the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics, the Contract Enrichment Fund, and the Wisconsin Law Review was published as “Taxonomy for Justifying Legal Intervention in an Imperfect World: What To Do When the Parties Have Not Achieved Bargains or Have Drafted Incomplete Contracts" in the 2004 Wisconsin Law Review. Further publications include: "Judicial Incorporation of Trade Usages: A Functional Solution to the Opportunism Problem” (Connecticut Law Review 2006), "The Rise and Fall of Promissory Estoppel or is Promissory Estoppel Really as Unsuccessful as Scholars Say It Is: A New Look at the Data, and "When Should Contract Law Supply A Liability Rule of Term? Framing a Principle of Unification for Contracts."
Kostritsky is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI).
On February 28, 2014, Kostritsky inaugurated a new lecture series honoring John Kidwell, a renowned contracts scholar and teacher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, by presenting a paper called “What Lawyers Say Determines Choice of Law in Merger Agreements.” It surveyed 812 lawyers about the choice of law made in a set of 343 merger agreements from 2011.
Her works in progress include “Efficient Contextualism” (co-authored with Peter M. Gerhart) and “Finding a Trend Toward Delaware as the Choice of Law in Merger Agreements” co-authored with Wojbor Woyczynski, Kyle Chen and Ben Robertson.
She has been selected as teacher of the year for the 1L class five times (2001, 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2013) and honored by Case Western Reserve University Alumni Association’s Board of Directors for her teaching in 2003).
Professor Wilks is a visiting associate professor, teaching business associations and commercial law courses. His cross-disciplinary research interests explore the intersection of governance, regulation and social justice issues emerging within transactional spaces. He has examined government use of private payment networks to facilitate various forms of financial surveillance; the role of transnational networks in harmonizing critical segments of the world’s financial system; and the politicization of migrant remittance flows between developed and developing economies.
Wilks practiced law and gained his initial teaching experience in Canada. He holds a BA in history and an LLB from Queen’s University; an MSW from the University of Toronto; and an LLM and PhD from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. During his studies at Osgoode Hall, he was awarded the Harry Arthurs Fellowship (2008), the Willard Estey Teaching Fellowship (2009-2010) and the Nathanson Fellowship (2010). His student-edited and peer-reviewed publications have appeared in the Washburn Law Review, the Supreme Court of Canada Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice and the Cornell International Law Journal.
Wilks has been teaching since 2011 at Lincoln Memorial University and Valparaiso University, before arriving at Case Western Reserve University.
Rob Myers provides management and oversight of the library’s day-to-day operations. He is responsible for library budgeting and expense monitoring, oversees print and electronic collection development activities, coordinates collection of statistics for various accrediting agencies and supervises the Head of Reference and the Head of Bibliographic Access. Myers serves as a reference librarian, teaches classes in LLEAP and Advanced Legal Research and participates in the faculty liaison program. He holds a JD from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and a MLS in Library Science from Kent State University. Prior to joining the library staff in 2002, Myers served as a librarian and library director with several downtown Cleveland law firms.
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