We talk with Greg Klass about the use of recent empirical studies to aid in the restatement of the law of consumer contracts - the one-sided, unread "agreements" that are ubiquitous in modern life. The conversation covers the purpose of restatements, the methodology of empirical legal scholarship, and more.
This show’s links:
Greg Klass's faculty profile (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/klass-gregory.cfm) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=363445)
Greg Klass, A Critical Assessment of the Empiricism in the Restatement of Consumer Contract Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3001212)
Oral Argument 133: Too Many Darn Radio Buttons (http://oralargument.org/133) (guest Jim Gibson)
John Gruber, Apple to Release Software Update to Solve iOS 11 Issue When Typing the Letter "I" (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/11/07/ios-11-i)
About the ALI's draft Restatement of Consumer Contracts (http://www.thealiadviser.org/consumer-contracts/)
Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar, and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts (http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol84/iss1/2/)
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Does Contract Disclosure Matter? (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2736521); Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, David Trossen, Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard Form Contracts (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1443256)
Arthur Leff, Contract as Thing (http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2827/)
William Baude, Adam Chilton, and Anup Malani, Making Doctrinal Work More Rigorous: Lessons from Systematic Reviews (http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/public_law_and_legal_theory/622/)
Gregory Klass and Kathryn Zeiler, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2224105)
Special Guest: Greg Klass.