Every first year law student in the U.S. takes a course on the Law of Contracts. It’s a rite of passage where lawyers-to-be learn all about things like consideration and legally-enforceable promises.

On July 23, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released its unanimous decision in Corner Brook (City) v. Bailey (Corner Brook). The SCC held that the general rules of contractual interpretation ...

Small businesses work with contracts every day. A company can have written contracts in place with its landlord, its vendors and its customers. Some of those contracts might contain vague provisions ...

Scott Dodson is the Associate Dean for Research and the James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation at UC Hastings College of the Law. The basic separation-of-powers model allocates lawmaking power to the ...