The law and sociology of boilerplate

Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 200-210

  Rakoff, Todd D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611179.019     Document Type: Chapter

References (33)

1. Todd D. Rakoff, Contracts of Adhesion: An Essay in Reconstruction, 96 Harv. L. Rev. 1173 (1983).
2. More precisely, the situation discussed was defined by seven attributes involved in mass contracting, of which the last was: “The principal obligation of the adhering party in the transaction considered as a whole is the payment of money.” Harv. L. Rev. at 1177.
3. Lucian A. Bebchuk & Richard A. Posner, One-Sided Contracts in Competitive Consumer Markets (in this volume).
4. Jason Scott Johnston, Cooperative Negotiation in the Shadow of Boilerplate (in this volume).
5. Bebchuk & Posner, supra note iii, at 834.
6. Friedrich Kessler, Contracts of Adhesion-Some Thoughts about Freedom of Contracts, 43 Colum. L. Rev. 629, 636 (1943).
7. Robert A. Hillman & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Standard-Form Contracting in the Electronic Age, 77 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 429 (2002).
8. Omri Ben-Shahar & James J. White, Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto-Manufacturing Contracts (in this volume).
9. their discussion of the degree to which tier-1 companies can successfully hold up the Original Equipment Manufacturers for additional benefits after the contracts have been signed. Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto-Manufacturing Contracts. at 974-76.
10. Stephen J. Choi & G. Mitu Gulati, Contract as Statute (in this volume).
11. Kevin E. Davis, The Role of Nonprofits in the Production of Boilerplate (in this volume).
12. Choi & Gulati, supra note 10 (swaps and derivatives); Douglas G. Baird, The Boilerplate Puzzle (in this volume) (commodities contracts).
13. Michelle E. Boardman, Contra Proferentem: The Allure of Ambiguous Boilerplate (in this volume).
14. Davis, supra note xi, at 1078.
15. Ben-Shahar &White, supra note 8 (automobile manufacturers); Ronald J. Mann, “Contracting” for Credit (in this volume) (credit card issuers).
16. Choi & Gulati, supra note 10.
17. David Gilo & Ariel Porat, The Hidden Roles of Boilerplate and Standard-Form Contracts: Strategic Imposition ofTransactionCosts, Segmentation ofConsumers, andAnticompetitive Effects, 104 Mich. L. Rev.983, 987 (2006).
18. Robert B. Ahdieh, The Strategy of Boilerplate, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1033, 1053-66 (2006).
19. Choi & Gulati, supra note 10.
20. Henry E. Smith, Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow (in this volume).
21. Robert A. Hillman, Online Boilerplate: Would Mandatory Web Site Disclosure of e-Standard Terms Backfire? (in this volume).
22. E. Allan Farnsworth, Farnsworth on Contracts §6.1, at 105-06 (3d ed. 2004).
23. Boardman, supra note 8.
24. Baird, supra note xii. On the “mandatory arbitration” issue in general, Charles L. Knapp, Taking Contracts Private: The Quiet Revolution in Contract Law, 71 Fordham L. Rev. 761 (2002)
25. Charles L. Knapp Symposium, Mandatory Arbitration, 67 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2004).
26. Mann, supra note 15; see also Hillman, supra note xxi. 26. 350 F.2d 445 (D.C. Cir. 1965)
27. Baird, supra note xii.
28. Mann, supra note 15.
29. Davis, supra note 11; Choi & Gulati, supra note 10.
30. See Choi & Gulati, supra note 10.
31. See Hillman, supra note xxi.
32. Ellsworth Dobbs, Inc. v. Johnson, 236 A.2d 843 (N.J. 1967).
33. Todd D. Rakoff, The Shape of the Law in the American Administrative State, 11 Tel Aviv U. Stud. L. 9, 18 (1992).