A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown by the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case. Rational litigants influence the quality of their cases by hiring skillful attorneys. This framework pe...

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown by the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case. Rational litigants influence the quality of their cases by hiring skillful attorneys. This framework pe...

Lawrence Cunningham’s Contracts in the Real World offers a good starting place for necessary conversations about how contract law should be taught, and, more generally, for when and how cases—in summary form or in longer excerpts—are useful in teaching the law. This Article tries to offer some reasons for thinking that their prevalence may reflect important truths about contract law in particul...

Abstract Despite the increasingly diversified discourses in international commercial arbitration, this device of socio-legal regulation remains a relatively under-theorized subject. In particular, far too little attention has been paid to analyzing arbitration through critical approaches such as Third World Approaches International Law (TWAIL). TWAIL is broadly understood methodological reorien...

. The Legal Consultancy Game is the game of giving legal advice professionally. It aims to be a description in general terms of the predictable patterns in an advice transaction between a consultant and a client. It is also a description of what the client demands of good legal advice. There are good reasons to describe consultancy as a game-like activity. Firstly, it shows how legal consultanc...

This article explores legal consciousness in contemporary British theatre. It is concerned with the messages conveyed about law society as experienced through participant-observation and textual analysis. The interpretation of meaning will take place within framework collective dissent developed by Halliday Morgan. Using this framework, show that a reoccurring theme these performances, legitima...