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Wrestling’s Old-Time Contract Religion
Ritual, commitment, and the work contracts once performed
Jan 5
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Dave Hoffman
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"The Coercive Dynamics of Mass Arbitration"
A new report from the Chamber of Commerce
Dec 24, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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The Restatement (Predicted) of Contracts?
A half-baked experiment in Restatement by AI.
Dec 15, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Schools Are Using NIL Buyouts Instead of Noncompetes to Deter Athletes' Movement
Courts should be skeptical of the trend
Dec 8, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Not my best (puffery) article.
Feeling sheepish about a superlative title.
Dec 2, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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The Private Life of Abundance
Maybe it's the common law that's stopping us from getting more of what we need.
Nov 17, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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The Evidence of How Arbitration Hurts Employees and Consumers is Mostly Vibes
Why we could use better empirical research on the real world effects of the rise of arbitration.
Oct 16, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Consumer Contracts are Fairly Readable, Suprisingly Sloppy, and Sometimes Irrelevant
Recent papers that changed the way I thought about contract law
Sep 15, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Out of Court, Out of Sight: Eviction Trap Arbitration Clauses in Modern Leases
Landlords are using arbitration to bury tenant claims. Their legality is unsettled—and the stakes for housing rights are high.
Sep 2, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Madison Johnson
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If AI Turns Contract Terms into Prices, BigLaw Will Be in Real Trouble
But if all our robot overlords do is drive down the value of knowing "what's market", we'll probably be fine.
Aug 22, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Could "Settling" Universities Repudiate Their Trump Deals and Get Their Money Back?
I'm skeptical they'll try, but let's take a look at the public law frontier of the law of economic duress.
Aug 11, 2025
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Dave Hoffman
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Contracts' Empire
A substack about how technological change has supercharged contracts' role in our lives, and what if anything to do about it.
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