Contracts
What Makes a Contract? Formation from Beginning to End
A practical roadmap for deciding whether words, conduct, or performance created an enforceable agreement.
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Contracts
Illusory Promises, Past Consideration, and Moral Obligation
Three doctrines that look like consideration at first glance - and the implied-duty rules that sometimes save the bargain.
Contracts
Contract Capacity: Minors, Mental Incapacity, and Intoxication
Distinguish void from voidable transactions, identify who may disaffirm, and calculate ratification and restitution consequences.
Contracts
Mistake, Misrepresentation, Fraud, Duress, and Undue Influence
Distinguish defects in assent, allocate the risk of mistake, and identify whether a transaction is void, voidable, rescinded, or reformed.
Civil Procedure
From Pennoyer to International Shoe: The Birth of Minimum Contacts
The foundational personal-jurisdiction story is a shift from territorial power to a flexible relationship-based standard, without erasing every traditional basis.