Tag Archives: Promise

The vital difference between a promise and a condition

I always tell my students that if you want people to promise to do something, you'd better make sure you don't phrase it as a condition in your contract, and a recent case out of the Middle District of Pennsylvania,… … Continue reading

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The Promise of Blockchain Technology in Annual Meetings and Corporate Governance

For many public companies, the annual meeting voting process is littered with intermediaries and inefficiencies that can result in a lack of shareholder engagement. Proposals are often voted on by proxies instead of by shareholders, oftentimes weeks in advance of … Continue reading

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BIS report: Cryptocurrency won’t replace money, but DLT has promise

By Anne Sherry, J.D. The fifth chapter of the Bank for International Settlements’ Annual Economic Report takes on cryptocurrencies, putting them in historical perspective and concluding that challenges such as energy requirements and valuation fluctuations make them an unlikely substitute … Continue reading

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"Law and Neuroscience: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls" by Jones

Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt University – Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences) has posted on "Law and Neuroscience: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls" (The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition (Gazzaniga, Mangun, and Poeppel, eds) (MIT Press, 2019, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here… … Continue reading

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When to Praise the Machine: The Promise and Perils of Automated Transactional Drafting

Foster, William E. and Lawson, Andrew, When to Praise the Machine: The Promise and Perils of Automated Transactional Drafting (April 11, 2018). South Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3160981 “Recent technological innovations hold the promise of streamlining legal … Continue reading

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