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In the 2007 case Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 v. Houser, the Arizona Supreme Court held that claims against the State must strictly adhere to Arizona’s notice of…

In Lake v. City of Phoenix, the Arizona Court of Appeals faced the question of whether metadata embedded within an electronic document is accessible under Arizona’s public-records statute. Lacking a…

In League of Arizona Cities & Towns v. Martin, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously held that a provision in the fiscal year 2008--2009 general appropriations act, requiring the cities and…

The purpose of this Article is threefold: first, to describe how theoretical perspectives on contracting have motivated empirical work on contracts; second, to highlight the dominant role of economic theories…

In Contracts as Organizations, Professors D. Gordon Smith and Brayden King make an important and much-needed contribution to the empirical study of contracts. As they document in their article, empirical…

Enforceable promises discourage lying, cheating, and stealing. Contracts that embody such promises shape institutions, distribute power, and organize markets. The Smith--King critique of elite empirical contracts scholarship reveals a field…

This Article centers on a long-standing problem in the law of public charity: how to ameliorate the force of restrictions imposed by donors on large gifts in the face of…