In the latest no-bid contract news, @cflav.bsky.social, Andrea Fuller, and Nicholas Nehemas report in @nytimes.com that the administration has entered into no-bid Ks for 11 polar icebreakers when five might do. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/more...

More No-Bid Contracts from the Trump Administration

In April, we posted about the Trump Administration’s no-bid contracts with an event-planning company, Event Strategies. During my summer hiatus from

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For the third time this year, we have a post about faculty members fired for challenging their students in ways that made the students uncomfortable. I reflect a bit on the uses of confronting law students with fact patterns that make them uncomfortable. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/firs...

Surrogacy news on the blog today. First, we have a German politician resigning for hypocrisy in connection with an international surrogacy agreement. Then, we have news from @kimkrawiec.bsky.social on surrogacy-inspired moral panic in Texas and Florida www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/two-...

Two Bits of News on Surrogacy Contracts

Every year, I teach the Baby M case as my transition case from illegal contracts to contracts that violate public policy. Interesting discussions ensue on

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Wilmington University has a new law school, and they need people to teach . . . EVERYTHING, including traditional doctrinal subjects like contracts. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/new-...

New Law School at Wilmington University Seeks New Faculty Members

Multiple positions: Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Full Professor of Law – Wilmington University Farnan School of Law. Summary: The

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Guest post on the blog today. It is a fairly common occurrence that we Boomers are now dependent on technology that is not very dependable, and technology providers do not make it easy to find solutions. Does contract law help? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/cont...

Contracts Law in Action: Dealing with Technology Providers

A Guest Post from Professor Emeritus Allen Kamp

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Brooklyn Law is hiring to fill THREE or FOUR tenured or tenure-track positions. Zounds! That includes openings in business law, contracts, and commercial law. And you could live in Brooklyn, everyone’s favorite Borough! www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/hiri...

Hiring at Brooklyn Law

Brooklyn Law School is hiring for three to four tenure-track or tenured positions. We welcome entry-level and lateral candidates with teaching interests

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IU Bloomington Law is hiring. The posting lists numerous curricular needs, including contracts. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/hiri...

Hiring at Indiana University

Entry-Level and Lateral Tenured/Tenure-Track Hiring at Indiana University Maurer School of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington is

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For those of you who haven’t had enough football (in American, soccer), we have happy news that, through the magic of contracts, Dani Rojas (Cristo Fernandez) is playing for the El Paso Locomotive www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/frid...

The Charleston School of Law is hiring for multiple positions, including contracts and sales. I taught at the College of Charleston for three years, so I can tell you, Charleston is lovely. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/hiri...

Some Friday Frivolity for you from Sid DeLong on the difficulty of understanding seemingly plain instructions in the modern world. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/sid-...

Guest post up today from Sid DeLong about the ways in which practitioners can shape commercial law through aggressive, partisan interpretation of Article 2. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/sid-...

Sid DeLong on Weaponizing Article II (Part I)

Weaponizing Article 2 in the Classroom and the Courtroom Part I Sidney W. DeLong How can a system of law, a system of ideas whose hypothesis it is that

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I enjoyed the latest episode of @agoldman.bsky.social's @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social, but I think it missed some principles of property and contracts law and so failed to deliver a healing message of community-through-law in the Internet of Things www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/frid...

Friday Frivolity: Of Mice and Relational Contracts

Comments on the Latest Episode of the Podcast Hyperfixed

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Penn State Dickinson Law is seeking a visiting professor to teach contracts and sales in Spring 2027. I teach contracts and sales, so take it for me, this is a sweet gig! www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/penn...

Penn State Seeks Visitor for Contracts and Sales

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS POSITION SPECIFICS PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW is seeking a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Visiting Associate Professor of

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It’s been a while since our last Tuesday Tips, but here are five new pieces of scholarship that you won’t want to miss, including work from Nate Oman @mleszcz.bsky.social, Alan Schartz & Simone Sepe, @jamesftierney.bsky.social, and Richard Frankel. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/tues...

Tuesday Tips: New Scholarship from SSRN

It’s been nearly two months since we last reported on new and noteworthy scholarship. SSRN has become a muss less user-friendly site in the past year, and

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Today’s post is just a check in on two leading contracts Substacks. You can read about NIL litigation in a post by @hoffprof.bsky.social, and you can read about sperm markets in a post by @kimkrawiec.bsky.social. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/chec...

Checking in on Contracts Substacks

There have been two very interesting Substacks that I wanted to promote since my last post on Substacks. By the way, if you are a contracts scholar with a

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Planet Money had a highly entertaining episode recently about labor economics and the _Alien_ movie franchise. There are labor themes throughout, but the entire series hinges on the monopsony power of the conglomerate that owns the Nostromo www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/frid...

Friday Frivolity: Labor Economics and Alien

This frivolity comes to you courtesy of the Planet Money podcast, which devoted an entire episode to the theme of labor economics in the Alien franchise.

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Once again, a state university has fired a non-tenured instructor because a student took offense to a course element and appealed to a politician for help. These are perilous times in the humanities, for instructors and administrators alike. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/indi...

Today’s post responds to @nytimes.com reporting on the Merit Systems Protection Board. Under unitary executive theory, it seems the MSPB can be bent to the President’s will. Under such circumstances, can it function? Is there a _Jarkesy_ issue? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/07/the-...

The New York Times and the Broken Merit Systems Protection Board

Abraham Lincoln complained about office seekers, comparing their demands unfavorably to those of the Civil War and finding them more taxing on his

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SCOTUS ruled 6-3 last week against an implied right of action for rescission under the Investment Company Act, leading me to rhapsodize about my nostalgia for implied rights of action. Is this another post-Erie departure from the general law tradition? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/scot...

A contracts take on Landor: In short, if Spending Clause enactments give rise to only contractual obligations, then they come with a duty of good faith and fair dealing. States violate that duty through not training or overseeing agents. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/ther...

Today on the Blog, Sid DeLong presents the views of Holmes, Learned Hand, and Posner on interpretation, distinguishing among discovery interpretation, adversarial interpretation, and forensic interpretation. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/sid-...

Sid DeLong on Forensic Interpretation

Forensic InterpretationSidney DeLong Two Kinds of Interpretation. Suppose you have agreed to meet a close friend in a crowded shopping mall so that you

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People don’t take promises seriously anymore. As Sid DeLong explains on the Blog today, you used to have to pay for breach with your flesh, your liberty, your life, or your immortal soul. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/frid...

Another guest post from Sid DeLong today. This one is about Joseph Williams' book _Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace_, on which Sid and I both relied when teaching legal writing. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/bad-...

Guest post up today from Sid DeLong, who explains legal fictions with the help of Dickens and Mark Twain www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/sid-...

#Caturday. He knows what inanition is. Why don’t you, Sam Ezersky? #SpellingBee

Taking a break from my break to bring word of a new Substack on arbitration from Tamar Meshel and a diverting, fun, and edifying post from @hoffprof.bsky.social on his Contracts’ Empire. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/subs...

Why doomscroll when you can read empirical research proving that your existence is at best useless and quite likely harmful? www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/06/new-...

New Scholarship: We’re Obsolete!

A madman ran into the marketplace shouting that law teaching was dead and that we had killed it. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea?

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I’m still in the every Charles Barkley is beautiful camp!

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Are GLP-1s Hurting The Charles Barkley Positivity Movement?

Platner disaster! What’s the solution? Why haven’t Bernie and Elizabeth Warren withdrawn their support? Can we still have Janet Mills as the candidate? Is there another alternative? #platner #Maine #Democrats

Interrupting the Blog Hiatus, I consider the $1.776 Billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” from the perspective of contracts law. The arguments against the enforceability of the Addendum seem far stronger than those against the enforcement of the Agreement. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/05/the-...

The So-Called Settlement Agreement

I know I’m supposed to be on hiatus, but I finished grading so I am treating myself to a blog post, and this post may be irrelevant (I hope) by the time

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